Infirmity vs. Disease — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Infirmity and Disease
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Infirmity
The condition of being infirm, often as associated with old age; weakness or frailty
The infirmity brought on by the disease.
Disease
A disease is a particular abnormal condition that negatively affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism, and that is not due to any immediate external injury. Diseases are often known to be medical conditions that are associated with specific signs and symptoms.
Infirmity
A bodily ailment or weakness
Complained about his infirmities.
Disease
A disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury
Heart disease
Bacterial meningitis is quite a rare disease
Infirmity
Weakness of resolution or character
The infirmity inherent in human nature.
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Disease
An abnormal condition of a part, organ, or system of an organism resulting from various causes, such as infection, inflammation, environmental factors, or genetic defect, and characterized by an identifiable group of signs, symptoms, or both.
Infirmity
A moral failing or defect in character
The infirmities and depravities of corrupt nobles.
Disease
A condition or tendency, as of society, regarded as abnormal and harmful.
Infirmity
Feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age.
Disease
(Obsolete) Lack of ease; trouble.
Infirmity
A moral weakness or defect
Disease
(medicine) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and fruit withered.
Infirmity
The state of being infirm; feebleness; an imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infirmity of body or mind.
'T is the infirmity of his age.
Disease
(by extension) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
Infirmity
A personal frailty or failing; foible; eccentricity; a weakness or defect.
Will you be cured of your infirmity ?
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
The house has also its infirmities.
Disease
Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
Infirmity
The state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
Disease
(obsolete) To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.
Disease
To infect with a disease.
Disease
Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
So all that night they passed in great disease.
To shield thee from diseases of the world.
Disease
An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; - applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc.
Diseases desperate grown,By desperate appliances are relieved.
The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public counsels have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished.
Disease
To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress.
His double burden did him sore disease.
Disease
To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; - used almost exclusively in the participle diseased.
He was diseased in body and mind.
Disease
An impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning
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