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DEBILITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
Synonyms:
debility; feebleness; frailness; frailty; infirmity; valetudinarianism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("debility" is a kind of...):
softness; unfitness (poor physical condition; being out of shape or out of condition (as from a life of ease and luxury))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "debility"):
asthenia; astheny (an abnormal loss of strength)
cachexia; cachexy; wasting (any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease)
Derivation:
debile (lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality)
debilitate (make weak)
