Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The condition of being chronically ill or disabled.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition of being an invalid; a state of debility or infirmity; especially, a chronic condition of poor health.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The condition of an invalid; sickness; infirmity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The condition of an
invalid ;sickness ;infirmity .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun chronic ill health
Etymologies
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Examples
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There is no romance in invalidism, and I do not welcome this weakness.
Spock, Obama, the Kwisatz Haderach, and decriminalizing evolution. docbrite 2009
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When I am striding about the hills here I really feel as if my invalidism were a mere piece of malingering.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896
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Froebels; while her invalidism is a complex problem, she has turned to man in her diseases.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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It was evident that something must be done speedily to save Phillida from a decline that might end in death, or from that chronic invalidism which is almost worse.
The Faith Doctor A Story of New York Edward Eggleston 1869
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Europeans, it is the same here as it is in India, the habit of drinking freely of spirituous liquors is universal, and one half the invalidism which is attributed to climate should be ascribed to indulgence in hard drinking.
Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Maturin Murray Ballou 1857
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Meanwhile, his chronic invalidism of body and purse does not too much affect him.
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By abolishing official charity and substituting a non-contributary system of old age pensions, a general system of insurance by the State of all its members against unemployment and invalidism ...
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Julia Foraker, a political wife of the Gilded Age, was born in rural Ohio in 1847, when, as she puts it, the only careers available to a woman were "the home or invalidism."
Little-Known Gold From the Gilded Age James Grant 2011
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He wasn't a man to take kindly to invalidism and the fact that he would have to slow down a little because of his heart wouldn't prevent him doing exactly what he wanted.
You Don't Take Names Ajay Nair 2010
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The other is the competitive invalidism the Eliots have instead of a marriage.
Archive 2009-12-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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