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nouninvalidism (countable and uncountable, plural invalidisms)
plural invalidisms
- countableuncountableThe condition of an invalid; sickness; infirmity.
After two years of swaddled invalidism, Mrs. Morton emitted a final gassy sigh and died, whereas twenty years later Elihu was to go “just like that,” as the neighbors said, from a stroke.
1978, David Galloway, A Family Album, London: John Calder, →ISBN, page 36Synonyms: invalidhood
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe condition of an invalid; sickness; infirmity.
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