Infirmity
noun
Weakness or lack of strength, often due to an illness.
Old age can often bring infirmity, but staying active can help.
noun
A disease or physical problem that makes you weak or ill.
Due to his infirmity, he was unable to walk without assistance.
noun
Weakness or lack of strength, often due to an illness.
Old age can often bring infirmity, but staying active can help.
noun
A disease or physical problem that makes you weak or ill.
Due to his infirmity, he was unable to walk without assistance.
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Pro Tip 1/3Age Association
Often linked with older age; isn't used much for young people unless they're severely ill.
Grandmother's growing infirmity has made stairs difficult for her.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Context
Mainly refers to physical strength, not mental capabilities or emotional states.
His infirmity since the accident has made it hard to lift objects.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Disability
Infirmity suggests a condition that can improve, unlike a permanent disability.
Her infirmity was temporary, and with therapy, she began to recover.
Pro Tip 1/3Age Association
Often linked with older age; isn't used much for young people unless they're severely ill.
Grandmother's growing infirmity has made stairs difficult for her.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Context
Mainly refers to physical strength, not mental capabilities or emotional states.
His infirmity since the accident has made it hard to lift objects.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Disability
Infirmity suggests a condition that can improve, unlike a permanent disability.
Her infirmity was temporary, and with therapy, she began to recover.
Pro Tip 1/3Age Association
Often linked with older age; isn't used much for young people unless they're severely ill.
Grandmother's growing infirmity has made stairs difficult for her.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Context
Mainly refers to physical strength, not mental capabilities or emotional states.
His infirmity since the accident has made it hard to lift objects.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Disability
Infirmity suggests a condition that can improve, unlike a permanent disability.
Her infirmity was temporary, and with therapy, she began to recover.
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How the worst moments in...
if we believe that it's purposeful. Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle. We could have been ourselves without our delights, but not without the misfortunes that drive our search for meaning. "Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities," St. Paul wrote in Second Corinthians,
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Slowly into Secret...
Built this home himself with the proceeds of his writing. Disaster struck when he was a toddler because he contracted polio and because of his infirmity, he was quite lonely and his imagination was fired with all the stories of the Borders. Shall we take a travel back in time
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How the worst moments in...
if we believe that it's purposeful. Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle. We could have been ourselves without our delights, but not without the misfortunes that drive our search for meaning. "Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities," St. Paul wrote in Second Corinthians,
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Slowly into Secret...
Built this home himself with the proceeds of his writing. Disaster struck when he was a toddler because he contracted polio and because of his infirmity, he was quite lonely and his imagination was fired with all the stories of the Borders. Shall we take a travel back in time
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Ludwig van Beethoven
German Composer
I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, 'I am deaf.' If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.
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Scott Gottlieb
American Public Servant
Many inherited disorders can perpetuate poverty by leading to disabilities that disrupt people's ability to work. In turn, someone's capacity to secure an effective new cure for these diseases can mean the difference between a life led productively, or one plagued by infirmity.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
American First Lady
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
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William Godwin
English Writer
The admission of one man, either hereditarily or for life only, into the place of chief of a country, is an evidence of the infirmity of man. Nature has set up no difference between a king and other men; a king, therefore, is purely the creation of our own hands.
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Christopher Gadsden
American Soldier
The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.
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Thomas Hobbes
English Philosopher
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
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Katie Hopkins
English Entertainer
I've always said when age or infirmity gets the better of me, I'm off to whichever civilised country lets the elderly die with dignity.
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Geoffrey Fisher
Clergyman
Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.
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Michel de Montaigne
French Philosopher
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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James M. Barrie
British Playwright
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
German Composer
I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, 'I am deaf.' If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.
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Scott Gottlieb
American Public Servant
Many inherited disorders can perpetuate poverty by leading to disabilities that disrupt people's ability to work. In turn, someone's capacity to secure an effective new cure for these diseases can mean the difference between a life led productively, or one plagued by infirmity.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
American First Lady
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
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William Godwin
English Writer
The admission of one man, either hereditarily or for life only, into the place of chief of a country, is an evidence of the infirmity of man. Nature has set up no difference between a king and other men; a king, therefore, is purely the creation of our own hands.
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Christopher Gadsden
American Soldier
The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.
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Thomas Hobbes
English Philosopher
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
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Katie Hopkins
English Entertainer
I've always said when age or infirmity gets the better of me, I'm off to whichever civilised country lets the elderly die with dignity.
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Geoffrey Fisher
Clergyman
Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.
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Michel de Montaigne
French Philosopher
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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James M. Barrie
British Playwright
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
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