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sickliness vs frailty

frailty vs sickliness

sickliness and frailty both are nouns.

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

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