infirmity

Other forms of infirmity

plural

infirmities·

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 infirmity

What does infirmity mean?

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

How many syllables are in infirmity?

infirmity has 4 syllables: in-fir-mi-ty. The stress falls on "fir". In IPA it is /ɪnˈfɝmɪti/.

What is another word for infirmity?

Close synonyms include frailty, debility, 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 infirmity a common word?

infirmity is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.