'Infirmity' definitions:
Definition of 'infirmity'
From: WordNet
noun
The state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) [syn: infirmity, frailty, debility, feebleness, frailness, valetudinarianism]
Definition of 'Infirmity'
From: GCIDE
- Infirmity \In*firm"i*ty\, n.; pl. Infirmities. [L. infirmitas : cf. F. infirmite. See Infirm, a.]
- 1. The state of being infirm; feebleness; an imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infirmity of body or mind. [1913 Webster]
- 'T is the infirmity of his age. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A personal frailty or failing; foible; eccentricity; a weakness or defect. [1913 Webster]
- Will you be cured of your infirmity ? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- A friend should bear his friend's infirmities. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The house has also its infirmities. --Evelyn.
- Syn: Debility; imbecility; weakness; feebleness; failing; foible; defect; disease; malady. See Debility. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'infirmity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnormality,
- abulia,
- acute disease,
- advanced age,
- advanced years,
- affection,
- affliction,
- age of retirement,
- ailment,
- allergic disease,
- allergy,
- an incurable disease,
- anility,
- atrophy,
- bacterial disease,
- bad habit,
- besetting sin,
- birth defect,
- blemish,
- blight,
- bug,
- cachexia,
- cachexy,
- caducity,
- cardiovascular disease,
- catch,
- chronic disease,
- chronic ill health,
- circulatory disease,
- complaint,
- complication,
- condition,
- congenital defect,
- cowardice,
- crack,
- danger,
- debilitation,
- debility,
- decay,
- decline of life,
- declining years,
- decrepitude,
- defect,
- defection,
- deficiency,
- deficiency disease,
- deformity,
- degenerative disease,
- delicacy,
- delicate health,
- desultoriness,
- disability,
- disease,
- disorder,
- distemper,
- dotage,
- drawback,
- eld,
- elderliness,
- endemic,
- endemic disease,
- endocrine disease,
- enervation,
- enfeeblement,
- epidemic disease,
- exhaustion,
- failing,
- failure,
- faintheartedness,
- faintness,
- fault,
- faute,
- fear,
- feeblemindedness,
- feebleness,
- flaw,
- foible,
- fragility,
- frailness,
- frailty,
- functional disease,
- fungus disease,
- gastrointestinal disease,
- genetic disease,
- green old age,
- hale old age,
- handicap,
- hazard,
- healthlessness,
- hereditary disease,
- hoary age,
- hole,
- hypochondria,
- hypochondriasis,
- iatrogenic disease,
- ill,
- ill health,
- illness,
- imperfection,
- inadequacy,
- incapacity,
- indisposition,
- infectious disease,
- infirm old age,
- infirmity of age,
- insecurity,
- insipidity,
- insolidity,
- instability,
- insubstantiality,
- invalidism,
- invalidity,
- kink,
- languishing,
- languishment,
- little problem,
- longevity,
- malady,
- malaise,
- moral flaw,
- morbidity,
- morbidness,
- morbus,
- muscular disease,
- neurological disease,
- nutritional disease,
- occupational disease,
- old age,
- oldness,
- organic disease,
- pandemic disease,
- pathological condition,
- pathology,
- peakedness,
- pensionable age,
- peril,
- perilousness,
- plant disease,
- pliability,
- poor health,
- precariousness,
- problem,
- protozoan disease,
- psychosomatic disease,
- respiratory disease,
- ricketiness,
- rift,
- ripe old age,
- risk,
- riskiness,
- rockiness,
- second childhood,
- secondary disease,
- seediness,
- senectitude,
- senility,
- senior citizenship,
- shakiness,
- shiftiness,
- shiftingness,
- shortcoming,
- sickishness,
- sickliness,
- sickness,
- signs,
- slipperiness,
- snag,
- softness,
- something missing,
- speculativeness,
- spinelessness,
- superannuation,
- symptomatology,
- symptomology,
- symptoms,
- syndrome,
- taint,
- the downward slope,
- the golden years,
- the pip,
- ticklishness,
- treacherousness,
- treachery,
- unauthenticity,
- unauthoritativeness,
- undependability,
- unfaithworthiness,
- unfirmness,
- unhealthiness,
- unreliability,
- unsolidity,
- unsoundness,
- unsteadfastness,
- unsteadiness,
- unsturdiness,
- unsubstantiality,
- unsureness,
- untrustworthiness,
- unwholesomeness,
- urogenital disease,
- vale of years,
- valetudinarianism,
- vapidity,
- vice,
- virus disease,
- vulnerable place,
- wasting,
- wasting disease,
- wateriness,
- weak link,
- weak point,
- weak side,
- weak will,
- weak-mindedness,
- weakening,
- weakliness,
- weakness,
- white hairs,
- wishy-washiness,
- worm disease