listening, audition, perceiving, earshot, attention, heed, awareness, comprehension, understanding, reception, sense, detection, monitoring, overhearing, eavesdropping, auscultation, auditory percepti... [more]
weakness - frailty - debility - feebleness - ailment - illness - sickness - disease - disorder - malady - affliction - incapacity - disability - impairment - decrepitude - fragility - enfeeblement - unfitness - unhealthiness - unsoundness - delicacy - infirmness - lameness - defect - deficiency - failing - flaw - shortcoming - vulnerability - susceptibility - brittleness - instability - unsteadiness - wretchedness - senility - dotage - enervation - exhaustion - fatigue - weariness - prostration - lassitude - faintness - delicateness - frailness - debilitation
Infirmity refers to a state of physical or mental weakness, typically due to age or chronic illness. It often implies a reduction in the ability to perform everyday tasks and may require assistance or medical intervention. Infirmities can affect various body systems and may lead to significant impairments in mobility, cognitive function, or other critical aspects of daily life.