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Debility vs Sickness - What's the difference?

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Debility is a related term of sickness.


As nouns the difference between debility and sickness

is that debility is a state of physical or mental weakness while sickness is the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady.

debility

English

Noun

(debilities)
  • A state of physical or mental weakness.
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    sickness

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady.
    • I do lament the sickness of the king. -
    Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. -.
    Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life. -.
  • Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.

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    Synonyms

    * nausea * disease * illness * infirmity * malady

    Hyponyms

    * car sickness * homesickness * motion sickness

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