Definition of "invalidism" [in•va•lid•ism]

• The condition of being chronically ill or disabled. (noun)

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• "There is no romance in invalidism, and I do not welcome this weakness."
• "When I am striding about the hills here I really feel as if my invalidism were a mere piece of malingering."
• "Froebels; while her invalidism is a complex problem, she has turned to man in her diseases."