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Fatigue vs Fatigability - What's the difference?

fatigue | fatigability |

As nouns the difference between fatigue and fatigability

is that fatigue is a weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion while fatigability is having a medical condition in which fatigue is easily induced; easily susceptible to fatigue.

As a verb fatigue

is to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.

fatigue

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=December 29 , author=Paul Doyle , title=Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle , work=The Guardian citation , page= , passage=Alan Pardew finished by far the most frustrated man at the Emirates, blaming fatigue for the fact that Arsenal were able to kill his team off in the dying minutes.}}
  • A menial task, especially in the military.
  • (engineering) A mechanism of material failure involving of crack growth caused by low-stress cyclic loading.
  • * 2013 , N. Dowling, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials , page 399
  • Mechanical failures due to fatigue have been the subject of engineering efforts for more than 150 years.

    Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * fatigues (military work clothing)

    Verb

    (fatigu)
  • to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion
  • to lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted
  • (intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) to undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
  • fatigability

    English

    Noun

    (fatigabilities)
  • (medicine) Having a medical condition in which fatigue is easily induced; easily susceptible to fatigue.