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Infirmity vs Sickness - What's the difference?

infirmity | sickness | Synonyms |

Sickness is a synonym of infirmity.



As nouns the difference between infirmity and sickness

is that infirmity is feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age while sickness is the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady.

infirmity

English

Noun

(infirmities)
  • feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age.
  • a moral weakness or defect

    • Related terms

    * infirm

    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.

    • Derived terms

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    Synonyms

    * nausea * disease * illness * infirmity * malady

    Hyponyms

    * car sickness * homesickness * motion sickness

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