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
  • Monitor and treat chronic conditions: Conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, celiac disease, liver disease, or kidney disease can affect ferritin levels.
    Lindsay Curtis, Health, 5 Nov. 2024
  • This condition increases your dog's risk of developing diseases such as diabetes and pancreatitis, which can be fatal for your pup.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of disease
Noun
  • His advanced decrepitude will be matched only by the looming threat of irrelevance in a desensitized world.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Here and throughout his work, contradictions between vitality and decrepitude, nature and artifice, beauty and the grotesque don’t resolve in neutralizing harmony, but instead thrum on with generative friction.
    Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
Definition of decrepitude
Noun
  • Savvy promoters of abstinence, the WCTU had a broad reach and employed a variety of tactics to circulate their claims about the physical maladies and social harms caused by alcohol.
    Elizabeth Marshall / Made by History, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024
  • In Haiti, people often go directly to a hospital to receive care for all sorts of maladies, and county officials and advocacy groups said many of the immigrants were unfamiliar with the U.S. system of seeing primary care doctors first or making appointments for treatment.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 18 Oct. 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
  • Moist compresses are used for: Boils and skin ailments Dry eyes, styes, and other eye issues Sore muscles Dry Compresses Dry compresses, like a microwavable heating pad, are a quick and easy solution for creating a warm compress.
    Kelly Burch, Verywell Health, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Who should avoid using a foot spa? People with certain conditions or ailments should avoid foot soaks unless otherwise instructed by their doctor.
    Daley Quinn Published, Health, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of ailment
Noun
  • But the infirmities plaguing India’s political opposition are legion.
    Milan Vaishnav, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The grandmother’s creeping infirmity does little to curb her excursions with Sophia.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024
Definition of infirmity
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