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sickliness vs debility

debility vs sickliness

sickliness and debility both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
sickliness Yes No No No
debility Yes No No No
As nouns, debility is a hypernym of sickliness; that is, debility is a word with a broader meaning than sickliness:
  • sickliness: The state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity, or physical distress due to poor health, especially of a chronic nature.
  • debility: the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
Other hypernyms of sickliness include feebleness, frailness, frailty, infirmity, valetudinarianism.
sickliness (noun) debility (noun)
The state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity, or physical distress due to poor health, especially of a chronic nature. the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
Difference between sickliness and debility

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