sickliness

noun

Definition of sicklinessnext
as in invalidism

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sickliness
  1. invalidism
  2. debility
  3. disease
  4. decrepitude
  5. malady
  6. invalidity
  7. ailment
  8. infirmity
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of invalidism
Noun
  • The shadow of death and debility haunted American women throughout the nineteenth century.
    Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 28 June 2024
  • According to this view, the outside world has been generous to Africa, providing substantial aid in recent decades, leaving no excuse for the continent’s debility.
    Howard W. French, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
Definition of debility
Noun
  • Some people have trouble absorbing this vitamin due to disease, gastric surgery, or medication.
    Sohaib Imtiaz, Verywell Health, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs, possibly a million or more, were swept into camps and prisons, with former detainees reporting abuse, disease and, in some cases, death.
    Dake Kang and Huizhong Wu, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
Definition of disease
Noun
  • Any rescue from the muck rests with ordinary citizens taking city and state government back from the politicians serving special interests rather than their own; and shunting aside the go-along-to-get-along business and civic elites settling for decrepitude.
    Forrest Claypool, Chicago Tribune, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Despite Orlok’s prosthetic decrepitude and the plague-like toxicity of his love, what truly horrifies Ellen about him is that some unknown part of her nature craves his touch.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of decrepitude
Noun
  • That kind of malady might require substantial time and attention to cure.
    Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 3 Jan. 2025
  • There may be no malady more frightening than prion diseases.
    Christie Wilcox, science.org, 27 Dec. 2024
Definition of malady
Noun
  • If any provision of these Terms of Use is deemed invalid by an arbitrator or court of competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms of Use, which shall remain in full force and effect.
    Big Think, Big Think, 10 June 2020
  • By the protocol, therefore, Chile gains the relinquishment of Peru's former claims of the invalidity of the entire treaty and notably of the cession of Tarapacá, and leaves open merely the question as to who shall have the unimportant area of Tacna and Arica.
    Edwin M. Borchard, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2011
Definition of invalidity
Noun
  • In several cases, chimps with ailments went out of their way to look for these plants.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
  • As reported by Newsweek and The Associated Press (AP), the agency has faced criticism from those who have reported cases and from advocates who accuse the government of long dismissing the array of ailments.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2024
Definition of ailment
Noun
  • Is Jill Biden Edith Wilson, an overprotective First Lady clinging to power in the face of her husband’s obvious infirmity?
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 13 July 2024
  • His zeal seemed even stranger when juxtaposed with a sensible approach to my own infirmities.
    Kayla Aletha Welch, Longreads, 19 Nov. 2024
Definition of infirmity
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