invalidism
nounEtymology From invalid + -ism.
1
The condition of an invalid; sickness; infirmity.
- 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.1978, David Galloway, A Family Album, London: John Calder, →ISBN, page 36:
- Synonyms
- invalidhood