Free TranslationFree Translation
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Valetudinarianism   Listen
Valetudinarianism

noun
1.
The state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age).  Synonyms: debility, feebleness, frailness, frailty, infirmity.






WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Valetudinarianism" Quotes from Famous Books



... his own weak conduct. How could Edith help feeling a slight contempt for a husband who not only wouldn't take any chances while he was still within the age, but positively imagined himself ill. True, Bruce had always been a malade imaginaire; like many others with the same weakness, his valetudinarianism had been terribly increased by the anxiety and worry of the war. But there was not much sympathy about for it just now. While so much real suffering was going on, imaginary ills were ignored, ...
— Love at Second Sight • Ada Leverson



Words linked to "Valetudinarianism" :   wasting, asthenia, cachexia, softness, infirmity, unfitness, cachexy, feebleness, debility, astheny, frailness



Copyright © 2024 e-Free Translation.com