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Imbecility vs Infirmness - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between imbecility and infirmness

is that imbecility is the quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, especially of mind while infirmness is the quality of being infirm; feebleness.

imbecility

English

Noun

  • The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, especially of mind.
  • Something imbecilic; a stupid action, behaviour, etc.
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    • , year= 1895 , year_published= , author= , by= (Max Simon Nordau) , title= Degeneration , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=LOWr5TsEaPUC&pg=PA270 , original= , chapter= , section= , isbn= , edition= , publisher= D. Appleton and Company , location= New York , editor= , volume= , page= 270 , passage= The Parnassian theory of art is mere imbecility . }}

    infirmness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being infirm; feebleness.
    • (Boyle)
    (Webster 1913)