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frailness vs sickliness

sickliness vs frailness

frailness and sickliness both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
frailness Yes No No No
sickliness Yes No No No
As nouns, sickliness is a hyponym of frailness; that is, sickliness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than frailness:
  • frailness: the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
  • sickliness: The state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity, or physical distress due to poor health, especially of a chronic nature.
Other hyponyms of frailness include asthenia, astheny, cachexia, cachexy, wasting.
frailness (noun) sickliness (noun)
the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) The state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity, or physical distress due to poor health, especially of a chronic nature.
Difference between frailness and sickliness

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