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Definition of infirmity :
1. A personal frailty or failing; foible; eccentricity; a weakness or defect.
2. The state of being infirm; feebleness; an imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infirmity of body or mind.
Synonyms:
ill, unsubstantiality, foible, better, shortcoming, health, vice, puniness, fault, distemper, help, delicateness, strong, delicacy, unsoundness, weakliness, ailing, failing, insubstantiality, confinement, fragileness, weak point, valetudinarianism, tenuity, affliction
disease (part of speech: noun)
disease, ague, feverishness, complication, condition, spasm, nausea, infliction, symptom, affection, virus, apoplexy, complaint, sickness, breakdown, syndrome, bug, handicap, queasiness, ailment, illness, attack, malaise, curse, unhealthiness, disability, disorder, debility, sickliness, decrepitude, malady, collapse, indisposition, pestilence, infection, fever
irresolution (part of speech: noun)
impulsiveness, vacillation, changeability, insipidity, indecisiveness, unsureness, hesitance, double-mindedness, uncertainty, ambivalence, spinelessness, irresolution, shyness, capriciousness, yellowness, volatility, tentativeness, wateriness, shiftiness, halfheartedness, fickleness, unwillingness, inconsistency
weakness (part of speech: noun)
deficiency, anemia, impotence, frailty
feebleness (part of speech: noun)
flimsiness, powerlessness, debilitation, weakness, frailness, feebleness, faintness, softness, fragility, ricketiness
Usage examples:
- Although he had far exceeded the ordinary span of life- he was born, I believe, in the last century- he showed few signs of physical, and none of mental infirmity; and his sudden and painless decease was quite unexpected. - "Archibald Malmaison", Julian Hawthorne.
- Sir, I am vex'd; Bear with my weakness; my old brain is troubled: Be not disturb'd with my infirmity: If you be pleased, retire into my cell, And there repose: a turn or two I'll walk, To still my beating mind. - "The Man Shakespeare", Frank Harris.
- It is an infirmity to love it, and long for it, and live by it. - "Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)", Alexander Maclaren.
