Usually means: Impairment of normal physical function.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. infirmity: Merriam-Webster
  2. infirmity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. infirmity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. infirmity: Collins English Dictionary
  5. infirmity: Vocabulary.com
  6. Infirmity, infirmity: Wordnik
  7. infirmity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. infirmity: Wiktionary
  9. infirmity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. infirmity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. infirmity: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. infirmity: Dictionary.com
  13. infirmity: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Infirmity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Infirmity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. infirmity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. infirmity: Rhymezone
  18. Infirmity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. infirmity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. infirmity: FreeDictionary.org
  21. infirmity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. infirmity: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. infirmity: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. infirmity: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. infirmity: Legal dictionary

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. infirmity: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  4. infirmity: Medical dictionary

(Note: See infirmities as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age.
noun:  a moral weakness or defect

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