invalidism
/in-vuh-li-diz-uhm/US // ˈɪn və lɪˌdɪz əm //UK // (ˈɪnvəlɪˌdɪzəm) //
无效主义,无效论,失效主义,无效的
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : prolonged ill health.
Examples
Her invalidism kept her in a constant state of “potent capacity.”
In ordering letters kindly state approximate age, prevalent tastes,—and in case of invalidism, the presumable severity of illness.
Give the story of his struggles with poverty in exile, his love affairs, his professorship, his marriage and invalidism.
Michelet treats semi-invalidism as the natural, inevitable, and charming condition of women.
I do not believe in this general invalidism, so far as it concerns women especially.
The loss of one daughter and the invalidism of another was the burden which this household had now to bear.
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