lameness

noun

Definition of lamenessnext
as in infirmity

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  1. infirmity
  2. debility
  3. disability
  4. decrepitude
  5. impairment
  6. weakness
Noun
  • But the infirmities plaguing India’s political opposition are legion.
    Milan Vaishnav, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The grandmother’s creeping infirmity does little to curb her excursions with Sophia.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024
Definition of infirmity
Noun
  • The shadow of death and debility haunted American women throughout the nineteenth century.
    Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 28 June 2024
  • According to this view, the outside world has been generous to Africa, providing substantial aid in recent decades, leaving no excuse for the continent’s debility.
    Howard W. French, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
Definition of debility
Noun
  • Students with disabilities should continue to be counted in that group for two years after no longer needing services, aligning with how students learning English are followed after services are no longer provided.
    Yesenia Robles, The Denver Post, 14 Nov. 2024
  • In some high-profile cases, people with disabilities have been reportedly pushed towards suicide; euthanasia has arguably been used in the place of a social safety net.
    The Week, theweek, 10 Nov. 2024
Definition of disability
Noun
  • His advanced decrepitude will be matched only by the looming threat of irrelevance in a desensitized world.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Here and throughout his work, contradictions between vitality and decrepitude, nature and artifice, beauty and the grotesque don’t resolve in neutralizing harmony, but instead thrum on with generative friction.
    Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
Definition of decrepitude
Noun
  • Aim for 7-9 hours: Anything less than 7 hours of sleep can lead to significant metabolic, cognitive, and cardiovascular impairments.
    Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
  • There was also $15.9 billion in impairment charges tied in part to accelerated depreciation for Intel 7 process node manufacturing assets and goodwill impairment in the Mobileye unit.
    Jordan Novet, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of impairment
Noun
  • Rethink your strengths and weaknesses and aim to enforce a healthier routine.
    Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Finally, our adversaries, China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, respect strength and exploit weakness.
    Richard Stacy, The Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2024
Definition of weakness
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