Dictionary

invalidism en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English invalid Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English invalidism From invalid + -ism.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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:

Forms

Synonyms

invalidhood