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
  • The path to health involves aggressive treatment that eradicates the disease.
    Pedro A. Rojas Arroyo, Boston Herald, 22 Jan. 2026
  • These issues include high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, liver disease, and multiple types of cancer, including breast, liver, colorectal, esophageal, and head and neck cancers.
    Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 21 Jan. 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
  • The hotel industry’s woes are a reminder that significant segments of the Bay Area economy have yet to fully recover from the after-effects of the maladies unleashed by the coronavirus outbreak.
    George Avalos, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Since being diagnosed with a number of maladies over the years, including hypothyroidism, leaky gut and a gluten intolerance, McCarthy has been on a quest to put better things not only in her body but on her body.
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 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
Noun
  • To Camarda, the heat shield problem is one symptom of a widespread ailment plaguing NASA that took root in the shuttle era.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Not all ailments are alike, naturally.
    Jamie Holmes, Twin Cities, 22 Jan. 2026
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“Sickliness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sickliness. Accessed 27 Jan. 2026.

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