The difference between Infirmity and Sickness
When used as nouns, infirmity means feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age, whereas sickness means the quality or state of being sick or diseased.
check bellow for the other definitions of Infirmity and Sickness
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Infirmity as a noun:
feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age.
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Infirmity as a noun:
a moral weakness or defect
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Sickness as a noun:
The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.
Examples:
"I do lament the sickness of the king.'' -[[w:William Shakespeare William Shakespeare]]"
"Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms.'' -[[w:Alexander Pope Alexander Pope]]."
"Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life.'' -[[w:Jane AustJane Austen]]."
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Sickness as a noun:
Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
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Sickness as a noun (linguistics):
The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.