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debility

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de·bil·i·ty  (d-bl-t)
n. pl. de·bil·i·ties
The state of being weak or feeble; infirmity.
[Middle English debilite, from Old French, from Latin dbilits, from dbilis, weak; see bel- in Indo-European roots.]
debility
Noun
pl -ties a state of weakness, esp. caused by illness
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Noun1.debility - the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
feebleness, frailness, frailty, infirmity, valetudinarianism
unfitness, softness - poor physical condition; being out of shape or out of condition (as from a life of ease and luxury)
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


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Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me!
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
I was ready to sink from fatigue and hunger, but being surrounded by a crowd, I thought it politic to rouse all my strength, that no physical debility might be construed into apprehension or conscious guilt.
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After allowing a moment of stillness to enforce his discipline, the voice of the singer was heard, in low, murmuring syllables, gradually stealing on the ear, until it filled the narrow vault with sounds rendered trebly thrilling by the feeble and tremulous utterance produced by his debility.
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