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Feebleness vs Decrepitude - What's the difference?

feebleness | decrepitude |

As nouns the difference between feebleness and decrepitude

is that feebleness is the quality or state of being feeble; debility; infirmity while decrepitude is the state of being decrepit or worn out from age or long use.

feebleness

English

Noun

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  • The quality or state of being feeble; debility; infirmity.
  • * 1962' (quoting '''c. 1398 text), (Hans Kurath) & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., ''(Middle English Dictionary) , Ann Arbor, Mich.: (University of Michigan Press), , page 1242:
  • dorr?&
  • 773;', '''d?r?''' adj. & n.
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    decrepitude

    English

    Noun

  • the state of being decrepit or worn out from age or long use
  • * 1781, Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets
  • There prevailed in his time an opinion, that the world was in its decay, and that we have had the misfortune to be produced in the decrepitude of nature.
  • * 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
  • This was the probable destination of his sister Kate. His uncle had deceived him, and might he not consign her to some miserable place where her youth and beauty would prove a far greater curse than ugliness and decrepitude ?