debility

Other forms of debility

plural

debilities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about debility

What does debility mean?

debility means "the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)".

How many syllables are in debility?

debility has 4 syllables: de-bil-i-ty. The stress falls on "bil". In IPA it is /dəˈbɪləti/.

What is another word for debility?

Close synonyms include infirmity, frailty, feebleness, frailness, valetudinarianism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is debility a common word?

debility is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with debility?

23 words rhyme with debility. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.