Dictionary Definition
debility n : the state of being weak in health or
body (especially from old age) [syn: infirmity, frailty, feebleness, frailness]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- Physical weakness.
Extensive Definition
Debility can refer to:
debility in Slovak: Ľahká duševná
zaostalosť
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
advanced age, advanced years, adynamia, age of retirement, an
incurable disease, anemia, anility, atony, blah feeling, bloodlessness, brain fag,
cachexia, cachexy, caducity, chronic ill health,
cowardice, debilitation, decline of
life, declining years, decrepitude, delicacy, delicate health,
disease, dotage, dullness, eld, elderliness, enervation, enfeeblement, etiolation, exhaustion, eyestrain, faintness, fatigue, feebleness, flabbiness, flaccidity, fragility, frailty, goneness, green old age, hale
old age, healthlessness, heart
strain, hoary age, hypochondria, hypochondriasis, ill
health, impotence,
infirm old age, infirmity, infirmity of age,
invalidism, invalidity, jadedness, languishing, languishment, languor, lassitude, listlessness, longevity, malaise, mental fatigue, mental
strain, morbidity,
morbidness, old age,
oldness, overstrain, overtiredness, peakedness, pensionable age,
poor health, prostration, ricketiness, ripe old age,
second childhood, senectitude, senility, senior citizenship,
sickliness, sleepiness, sluggishness, softness, stance fatigue,
strain, strengthlessness,
superannuation,
the downward slope, the golden years, tiredness, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unwholesomeness, vale of
years, valetudinarianism,
wasting, weakliness, weakness, wearifulness, weariness, white
hairs