- infirmity as a noun:
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infirmity
noun
1 infirmity
The state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age).
synonyms: debility, feebleness, frailness, frailty, valetudinarianism.
Roget 160: weakness etc. adj.; debility, atony†, relaxation, languor, enervation; impotence etc. 158; infirmity; effeminacy, feminality†; fragility, flaccidity; inactivity etc. 683. anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood. declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength; delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia†, adynamy†, cachexy†, cachexia [Med.], sprain, strain. reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards. softling†, weakling; infant etc. 129; youth etc. 127. ... show more
Roget 655: disease; illness, sickness etc. adj.; ailing &c.; all the ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity†; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; complaint, disorder, malady; distemper, distemperature†. visitation, attack, seizure, stroke, fit. delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy†; cachexia [Med.], atrophy, marasmus†; indigestion, dyspepsia; decay etc. (deterioration) 659; decline, consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration. taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity†, infestation; epidemic, pandemic, endemic, epizootic; murrain, plague, pestilence, pox. sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple, wen etc. (swelling) 250; carbuncle, gathering, imposthume†, peccant humor, issue; rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus†, sphacelation†, leprosy; eruption, rash, breaking out. fever, temperature, calenture†; inflammation. ague, angina pectoris [Lat.], appendicitis; Asiatic cholera†, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia†, blennorrhoea†; blood poisoning, bloodstroke†, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever†, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy [Med.]; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele [Med.], canker rash, cardialgia [Med.], carditis [Med.], endocarditis [Med.]; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche†, dartre [Fr.]; enanthem†, enanthema†; erysipelas; exanthem†, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps†, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis†, pneumonia, psora†, pyaemia†, pyrosis [Med.], quinsy, rachitis†, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma†, syntexis†, tetanus, tetter†, tonsillitis, tonsilitis†, tracheocele [Med.], trachoma, trismus [Med.], varicella [Med.], varicosis [Med.], variola [Med.], water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. fatal disease etc. (hopeless) 859; dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough; general breaking up, break up of the system. [Disease of mind] idiocy etc. 499; insanity etc. 503. martyr to disease; cripple; the halt the lame and the blind;" valetudinary†, valetudinarian; invalid, patient, case; sickroom, sick-chamber. [Science of disease] pathology, etiology, nosology†. [Veterinary] anthrax, bighead; blackleg, blackquarter†; cattle plague, glanders†, mange, scrapie, milk sickness; heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms; quarter-evil, quarter-ill; rinderpest. [disease-causing agents] virus, bacterium, bacteria. [types of viruses] DNA virus; RNA virus. [RNA viruses] rhinovirus; rhabdovirus; picornavirus. [DNA viruses] herpesvirus; cytomegalovirus, CMV; human immunodefficiency virus, HIV. ... show more
Roget 945: vice; evil-doing, evil courses; wrongdoing; wickedness, viciousness etc. adj.; iniquity, peccability†, demerit; sin, Adam†; old Adam†, offending Adam†. immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals; enphagy†, dophagy†, exophagy†; want of principle, want of ballast; obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity†, depravity, pollution; hardness of heart; brutality etc. (malevolence) 907; corruption etc. (debasement) 659; knavery etc. (improbity) 940†; profligacy; flagrancy, atrocity; cannibalism; lesbianism, Sadism. infirmity; weakness etc. adj.; weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection; error; weak side; foible; failing, failure; crying sin, besetting sin; defect, deficiency; cloven foot. lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den†; gusto picaresco [It]. fault, crime; criminality etc. (guilt) 947. sinner etc. 949. [Resorts] brothel etc. 961; gambling house etc. 621; joint [Slang], opium den, shooting gallery, crack house. ... show more
is a specific kind of: softness, unfitness.
is a broader term that covers: asthenia, astheny | cachexia, cachexy, wasting.
derivation: debilitate, drain, enfeeble | feeble, nerveless | frail | debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly.
Dutch: asthenie, slapte, zwakte
Polish: osłabienie, mizerność, anemiczność, słabość, niemoc
Moby thesaurus: abnormality, abulia, acute disease, advanced age, advanced years, affection, affliction, age of retirement, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, an incurable disease, anility, atrophy, bacterial disease, bad habit, besetting sin, birth defect, blemish, blight, bug, cachexia, cachexy, caducity, cardiovascular disease, catch, chronic disease, chronic ill health, circulatory disease, complaint, complication, condition, congenital defect, cowardice, crack, danger, debilitation, debility, decay, decline of life, declining years, decrepitude, defect, defection, deficiency, deficiency disease, deformity, degenerative disease, delicacy, delicate health, desultoriness, disability, disease, disorder, distemper, dotage, drawback, eld, elderliness, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, enervation, enfeeblement, epidemic disease, exhaustion, failing, failure, faintheartedness, faintness, fault, faute, fear, feeblemindedness, feebleness, flaw, foible, fragility, frailness, frailty, functional disease, fungus disease, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, green old age, hale old age, handicap, hazard, healthlessness, hereditary disease, hoary age, hole, hypochondria, hypochondriasis, iatrogenic disease, ill, ill health, illness, imperfection, inadequacy, incapacity, indisposition, infectious disease, infirm old age, infirmity of age, insecurity, insipidity, insolidity, instability, insubstantiality, invalidism, invalidity, kink, languishing, languishment, little problem, longevity, malady, malaise, moral flaw, morbidity, morbidness, morbus, muscular disease, neurological disease, nutritional disease, occupational disease, old age, oldness, organic disease, pandemic disease, pathological condition, pathology, peakedness, pensionable age, peril, perilousness, plant disease, pliability, poor health, precariousness, problem, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, respiratory disease, ricketiness, rift, ripe old age, risk, riskiness, rockiness, second childhood, secondary disease, seediness, senectitude, senility, senior citizenship, shakiness, shiftiness, shiftingness, shortcoming, sickishness, sickliness, sickness, signs, slipperiness, snag, softness, something missing, speculativeness, spinelessness, superannuation, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, taint, the downward slope, the golden years, the pip, ticklishness, treacherousness, treachery, unauthenticity, unauthoritativeness, undependability, unfaithworthiness, unfirmness, unhealthiness, unreliability, unsolidity, unsoundness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, unsturdiness, unsubstantiality, unsureness, untrustworthiness, unwholesomeness, urogenital disease, vale of years, valetudinarianism, vapidity, vice, virus disease, vulnerable place, wasting, wasting disease, wateriness, weak link, weak point, weak side, weak will, weak-mindedness, weakening, weakliness, weakness, white hairs, wishy-washiness, worm disease ... show more.
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