invalidism

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Etymology[edit]

invalid +‎ -ism

Noun[edit]

invalidism (countable and uncountable, plural invalidisms)

  1. The condition of an invalid; sickness; infirmity.
    • 1978, David Galloway, A Family Album, London: John Calder, →ISBN, page 36:
      After two years of swaddled invalidism, Mrs. Morton emitted a final gassy sigh and died, whereas twenty years later Elihu was to go “just like that,” as the neighbors said, from a stroke.

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