sickliness

Definition of sicklinessnext

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Noun
  • As Eliot went through a crisis involving his turn to Christianity, Vivien’s invalidism, and his mother’s death, his letters got more and more intense and confessional.
    Christopher Tayler, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
  • Each of his figures exists in a limbo of invalidism, enervation, atrophied mythology, Arcadian dreams of bathing beauties, and all our endless Modernist nudes by riverbeds, in parks, beds, stripped naked facing us, or masturbating.
    Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2021
Noun
  • In Will There Ever Be Another You, the main character struggles with an illness similar to long COVID, descending into a state of debility and psychosis as readers experience the chaos of her unraveling life.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The shadow of death and debility haunted American women throughout the nineteenth century.
    Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 28 June 2024
Noun
  • When hair endures damage from styling treatments, color, or heat, the hair’s keratin composition can be compromised, leading to feebleness and a greater risk of breakage.
    Sophie Wirt, InStyle, 30 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • After whooping cough vaccinations declined in Dallas County over the last year, the preventable disease spiked to the highest numbers of infections officials have seen in over a decade, Huang said.
    Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Harm reduction can encompass a range of practices, including handing out free needles to slow the spread of disease, and many local leaders credit some of those efforts with recent drops in fatal overdoses.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • In playing the character later on, was there a sort of reverse-engineering of his decrepitude?
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 26 Apr. 2025
  • The clinics’ decrepitude was regularly mentioned in health ministry meetings.
    Mara Kardas-Nelson, The Dial, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Survivors may look thin and suffer from lameness until their condition improves.
    Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As hotel values in 2025 rose in Southern California, a slump in Northern California showed a decline that suggests the market remains weighed down by a host of economic maladies, a new report shows.
    George Avalos, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • More marketers of health and wellness products and services came to the Super Bowl to tout weight loss pills, telehealth services and even getting consumers to take tests that might identify potential maladies.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 8 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Miscellaneous The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these Official Rules or the Affidavit will not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision.
    USA TODAY, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
  • This latest result has nothing to say about parallel universes, the multiverse, or the validity or invalidity of any of the still-viable interpretations of quantum mechanics.
    Big Think, Big Think, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Sickliness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sickliness. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.

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