Infirmity

Definition: Infirmity

Infirmity

Noun

1. The state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age).

Date "infirmity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Etymology: Infirmity \In*firm"i*ty\, noun; plural Infirmities. [Latin expression infirmitas compare to the French expression infirmite. See Infirm,]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Finance	Any known act or visible omission in detail during the creation or transfer of title that would invalidate the title. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Infirmity

Synonyms: debility (n), feebleness (n), frailness (n), frailty (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disease	Noun: disease; illness, sickness; Adjective: ailing; " all the ills that flesh is heir to "; morbidity, morbosity; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; complaint, disorder, malady; distemper, distemperature.
Irresolution	Noun: irresolution, infirmity of purpose, indecision; indetermination, undetermination; unsettlement; uncertainty; demur, suspense; hesitating; Verb:, hesitation, hesitancy; vacillation; changeableness; fluctuation; alternation; (oscillation); caprice.
Vice	Infirmity; weakness; Adjective: weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection; error; weak side; foible; failing, failure; crying sin, besetting sin; defect, deficiency; cloven foot.
Weakness	Noun: weakness; Adjective: debility, atony, relaxation, languor, enervation; impotence; infirmity; effeminacy, feminality; fragility, flaccidity; inactivity.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Infirmity

English words defined with "infirmity": circumstantially ♦ dotage ♦ healthy ♦ Infirmities, Infirmness ♦ minutely ♦ second childhood, senility, superannuate ♦ tottering, tottery ♦ Unsadness ♦ Valetudinarianism ♦ Weak side. (references)

Specialty definitions using "infirmity": confined to bed ♦ Frail Elderly ♦ Odd and Even ♦ reproductive health. (references)

Author	Quotation
Froude	Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway, the passion and infirmity of age.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He limped still more from anxiety than from infirmity.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Ireland	The indemnity is not payable if the principal has terminated the contract because of default by the agent or if the contract is terminated on grounds of age, infirmity, or illness of the agent. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Infirmity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Infirmity" is used about 89 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	89	34,931

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "infirmity".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Mahali	N/A	Biblical	Infirmity
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "infirmity": infirmity of purpose ♦ partial infirmity. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "infirmity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		sëmundje (affection, ailment, canker, complaint, disease, disorder, distemper, evil, ill, illness, sickness), pafuqi (feebleness, hopelessness, impotence, impotency, malady, malaise, nullity, weakness), gjymti (invalidity), dobësi (adynamia, anaemia, anemia, debility, delicacy, disease, failing, feebleness, flabbiness, flaccidity, fragility, frailty, goneness, impotence, impotency, inanimation, inanition, inanity, labefaction, languish, languor, laxness, leanness, limpness, malady, marasmus, reaction, sinking, tabescence, tenuity, vulnerability, washiness, weakness). (various references)

Arabic		‏مرض (ail, ailment, be ill, become ill, complaint, disease, fall ill, fall sick, favorable, favourable, get ill, illness, mal, malady, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pox, satisfactory, satisfying, sicken, sickness, take ill, trouble), ‏نقيصة (demerit, fault, vice, want, weakness), ‏وهن (asthenia, attenuate, attenuation, damp, dampen, debilitate, debility, decay, discouragement, distemper, droop, enervate, enfeeble, extenuate, feebleness, imitators, invalidate, languish, languishment, languor, pall, relax, sap, shrivel, sickliness, thin, weak spot, weaken, weaklings), ‏سقم (ailment, be ill, disease, illness, malady, morbidness, sicken, sickliness, sickness), ‏عيب (blemish, blot, blotch, deformity, demerit, disgrace, failing, fault, flaw, imperfection, shortcoming, stain, vice, want), ‏عجز (balk, buttock, decrepitude, deficiency, disability, emasculation, failure, famine, gap, inability, incapability, incapacitate, incompetence, paralyse, paralysis, paralyze, poorness, posterior, rump, shortage), ‏ضعف (attenuation, backwardness, crack, craze, debility, decrepitude, defect, delicacy, emaciation, enervation, failing, failure, fainting, feebleness, flabbiness, flightiness, frailness, frailty, grogginess, imitators, impairment, impotence, inadequacy, incapability, lameness, languor, limp, limpness, shakiness, sickliness, sleeplessness, tenuousness, twice, uneasiness, weak spot, weaklings, weakness), ‏أفات الشيخوخة, ‏ألم (ache, distress, hurt, inflict, misery, pain, smart, soreness, sufferance, suffering, wrench). (various references)

Bulgarian		слабост (asthenia, crack, debility, demerit, failing, fancy, feebleness, flabbiness, frailness, frailty, impotence, impotency, inanition, insufficiency, leanness, partiality, poorness, shortcoming, tenderness, tenuity, weakness), слабохарактерност (frailty, laxity), телесен недостатък, немощ (anility, debility, decrepitude, feebleness, prostration), недъг (affliction, ailment, handicap, vice), духовен недостатък. (various references)

Chinese		癃 (retention of urine), �"弱 (Infirmities). (various references)

Czech		slabost (debility, faintness, feebleness, frailty, impotence, invalidity, qualm, thinness, weak spot, weakness), neduživost, churavost (ailment). (various references)

Danish		sygdomssvaekkelse. (various references)

Dutch		ongeschiktheid, gebrek (absence, bad work, blemish, damage, defect, deficiency, degrade, failure, fault, flaw, lack, poverty, shortage, shortcoming, vice). (various references)

Esperanto		ŝanceliĝemo (indecision, infirmity of purpose, irresolution). (various references)

Farsi		ناتوانی (Impotence, Inability, Insufficience, Insufficiency, Intolerance), ضعف (Depauperation, Languor, Swoon). (various references)

Finnish		voimattomuus (lack of strength, lassitude, powerlessness, weakness), heikkous (failing, faintness, feebleness, foible, frailty, impairment, weak point, weakness). (various references)

French		infirmité. (various references)

German		gebrechlichkeit (fragility, frailness, frailty, infirmness), Schwäche (brittleness, deficiency, dimness, dullness, enervation, failing, faintness, feebleness, foible, fondness, frailty, impairment, impotence, lameness, languor, lightness, lowness, partiality, penchant, poorness, proclivity, slackness, slenderness, slightness, softness, unsoundness, weakness). (various references)

Greek		ασθένεια (ailment, complaint, disease, illness, malady, puniness, sickness), αναπηρία (disability, handicap, impairment, invalidity), αδυναμία (asthenia, debility, delicacy, feebleness, flabbiness, foible, frailness, frailty, inability, languor, lassitude, puniness, shortcoming, weakliness, weakness). (various references)

Hebrew		מחל�" (disease, distemper, illness, malady, sickness), מחוש (ache, ail, indisposition, pain), מטוט (collapse), תשישות (feebleness, weakness), חולש�" (debility, distemper, faintness, feebleness, flabbiness, frailness, frailty, languishment, languor, laxation, weakness). (various references)

Hungarian		határozatlanság (debility of purpose, hesitation, incertitude, indecision, irresolution, shilly shally, shilly-shally, wobbliness), gyengeség (debility, enervation, failing, faintness, feebleness, flimsiness, foible, fragility, frailness, impotence, mildness, tenuity, tenuousness, weakness). (various references)

Indonesian		kelemahan (debility, shortcoming, weakness). (various references)

Italian		infermit� (illness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�'�柳 (delicate constitution, purple willow). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ほりゅう (deferment, delicate constitution, purple willow, putting on hold, reserve). (various references)

Korean		허약 (Infirmities). (various references)

Manx		neufondid (incapability, ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, insufficiency), meillid (adagio, lassitude, listlessness, scragginess, slowness, weakness), asslaynt (disease, disorder, illness). (various references)

Norwegian		svakelighet, skrøpelighet (frailty). (various references)

Pig Latin		infirmityay

Portuguese		enfermidade (colorwash, colourwash, complaint, disease, disorder, distemper, ill, illness, sickness). (various references)

Romanian		slãbiciune (debility, decrepitude, defect, droop, failing, faintness, feebleness, flimsiness, foible, languor, leanness, liking, propensity, shortcoming, tenuity, weakness), neputinţã (decrepitude, disability, emasculation, helplessness, impotence, impotency, indefensibility, palsy), lipsã de voinţã, debilitate (adynamia, debility, feebleness, frailty, sinking), caracter slab, şubrezenie (craziness, feebleness, flimsiness, frailty, instability, weakness). (various references)

Russian		немощь (debility). (various references)

Scottish		eucail (disease, disease: an+ cáil). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		slabost (faintness, frailty, malaise, poorness, remoteness, tenuity, weakness), nemoć (weakness). (various references)

Spanish		flaqueza (failing, frailty, market, market dullness, market flatness, market slackness, market sluggishness, thinness), enfermedad (affliction, ailment, complaint, disease, disorder, epidemic, feverweed, flu, illness, influenza, malady, sickness, trouble), dolencia (disease, illness, suffer, suffering, woes), debilidad (debilitation, debility, dimness, enervation, exhaustion, faintness, feebleness, flabbiness, flimsiness, foible, frailness, frailty, grogginess, market, market dullness, market flatness, market slackness, market sluggishness, meekness, shakiness, weakness), achaque (ache, affliction, ailment, fault, matter, pretext, weakness). (various references)

Swedish		svaghet (debility, dotage, fault, flaw, foible, fragility, frailty, impairment, impuissance, loophole, operating system security flaw, security flaw, weakness). (various references)

Turkish		zaaf (achilles heel, disability, failing, foible, frailty, lameness, vice, weakness), sakatlık (defect, deformation, deformity, disability, disablement, invalidism, invalidity, lameness, malformation, shakiness), kusur (blame, blemish, cavil, culpability, defalcation, default, defect, deficiency, demerit, failing, failure, fault, flaw, freckle, gaff, imperfection, inaccuracy, remissness, scar, shortcoming, stigma, taint, vice), kararsızlık (changeability, dither, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, fickleness, flightiness, fluctuation, haziness, hesitance, hesitancy, incertitude, inconsistency, indecision, indeterminate, infirmity of purpose, instability, irresolution, looseness, oscillation, quandary, shilly shally, suspense, uncertainty, unsteadiness, vacillation, variability), hastalık (affection, ailment, bad blood, disease, distemper, ill, illness, invalidism, invalidity, malady, patho-, sickness), halsizlik (debility, grogginess, languor, lassitude, prostration, sinking, weakness), güçsüzlük (disability, feebleness, impotence, impotency, ineffectualness, senility, shakiness, weakness). (various references)

Ukranian		слабовілля (feeble-mindedness), неміч (decrepitude), недолік (blemish, defect, deficiency, deficit, dereliction, disadvantage, drawback, failing, imperfection, lapse, minus, negative, objection, out, preterition, shortcoming, take off, vice, wrinkle). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính nhu nhược (infirmness, mildness, nervelessness), tính không cương quyết tính không kiên định (infirmness), tính chất yếu đuối (infirmness), tính chất hom hem tính chất yếu ớt (infirmness), tính chất ốm yếu (infirmness). (various references)

Welsh		nychdod (feebleness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	debilitatum, infirmitas. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	John Chapter 5, Verse 5
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Hn de tiV anqrwpoV ekei triakontaoktw eth ecwn en th asqeneia
Latin	405	Vulgate	Erat autem quidam homo ibi triginta et octo annos habens in infirmitate sua
Old English	990	West Saxon	Þær wæs sum man eahte & þrittigwintra on hys untrumnysse.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And a man was there, hauynge eiyte and thritti yeer in his sikenesse.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And a certayne ma was theare which had bene diseased .xxxviii. yeares
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And a certain man was there, who had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	John Chapter 5, Verse 5
Cebuano	Ug didtoy usa ka tawo nga nagmasakiton sulod na sa katloan ug walo ka tuig.
Croatian	Bijaše ondje neki èovjek koji je trpio od svoje bolesti trideset i osam godina.
Danish	Men der var en Mand, som havde været syg i otte og tredive År.
Dutch	En aldaar was een zeker mens, die acht en dertig jaren krank gelegen had.
Finnish	Ja siellä oli mies, joka oli sairastanut kolmekymmentä kahdeksan vuotta.
French	L� se trouvait un homme malade depuis trente-huit ans.
German	Es war aber ein Mensch daselbst, achtunddreißig Jahre lang krank gelegen.
Haitian Creole	Te gen yon nonm la ki te malad depi trantwitan.
Hungarian	Vala pedig ott egy ember, a ki harmincnyolcz esztendõt töltött betegségében.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Di tempat itu ada seorang laki-laki yang sudah sakit tiga puluh delapan tahun lamanya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka adalah di sana seorang yang sakit sudah tiga puluh delapan tahun lamanya.
Italian	Si trovava l� un uomo che da trentotto anni era malato.
Maori	Na kei reira tetahi tangata, e toru tekau ma waru nga tau e mate ana.
Norwegian	Nu var der en mann som hadde vært syk i åtte og tretti år;
Portuguese	Achava-se ali um homem que, havia trinta e oito anos, estava enfermo.
Rumanian	Acolo se afla un om bolnav de treizeci wi opt de ani.
Russian	фХФ �'ЩМ ЮЕМПЧЕЛ, ОБИП�"ЙЧЫЙКУС Ч �'ПМЕЪОЙ ФТЙ�"�"БФШ ЧПУЕНШ МЕФ.
Spanish	Se encontraba allí cierto hombre que había estado enfermo durante treinta y ocho años.
Swahili	Basi, hapo palikuwa na mtu mmoja aliyekuwa mgonjwa kwa muda wa miaka thelathini na minane.
Swedish	Där fanns nu en man som hade varit sjuk i trettioåtta år.
Uma	Ria hi ree hadua tomane, tolu mpulu' walu mpae-imi peda'.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings
	"Infirmity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: imfirmity, infermity, infimity, infirity, infirmaty, Infirmay, infirmiry, infirmit, infirmitie, infirmytie. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "infirmity" (pronounced i'nfer"mutē)
4	-m u t ē	amity, anonymity, calamity, conformity, deformity, enmity, enormity, equanimity, extremity, Nonconformity, proximity, unanimity, uniformity.
3	-u t ē	ability, abnormality, absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, analyticity, animosity, annuity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, entity, equality, equity, eternity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, facility, fallibility, falsity, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infinity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, pomposity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, publicity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, severity, sexuality, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, unity, universality, university, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, Verity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulgarity, vulnerability.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "f-i-i-i-m-n-r-t-y"
	-2 letters: nitrify.
	-3 letters: infirm, minify.
	-4 letters: minty, nifty.
	-5 letters: firm, firn, frit, inti, mini, mint, miri, miry, mity, rift, rimy, tiny, trim, tyin.
	Words containing the letters "f-i-i-i-m-n-r-t-y"
	+4 letters: unfamiliarity.
	+5 letters: confirmability.
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