lameness

noun

Definition of lamenessnext
as in infirmity

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  1. infirmity
  2. debility
  3. disability
  4. decrepitude
  5. impairment
  6. weakness
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
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
  • For seniors and people with disabilities, programs like the city’s Housing Choice Voucher Program focus on providing safe, affordable and accessible housing options.
    Sherell Jackson, Baltimore Sun, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The foundation plans to use the funds to build an adaptive playground for children with disabilities at a school in South Jersey.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of disability
Noun
  • Recent experience, including Mauricio Macri’s 2015-2019 Presidency, when Caputo and Federico Sturzenegger were also in charge of the nation’s economic levers, ended up with jarring devaluations that initiated a new and deeper descent into economic decrepitude.
    Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
  • If that’s not enough for perennial contention, then the rest of the AFC East’s decrepitude will keep that window wide open.
    Tim Graham, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of decrepitude
Noun
  • Excluding adults who had mild cognitive impairment, dementia or incomplete data, the Kanazawa scientists looked at the data of more than 8,500 adults aged 65 and older.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The increase in net loss was primarily due to higher operating expenses, including a significant impairment expense.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 13 Jan. 2025
Definition of impairment
Noun
  • But Price acknowledged that the case revealed multiple weaknesses in how police handled homicide investigations at the time, leading to widespread reforms that remain in place today.
    Michael Gordon, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2025
  • But dunking has become another item on a laundry list of weaknesses for Williams to fix.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
Definition of weakness
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