infirmity (n.)
- abnormality
- abulia
- affection
- affliction
- ailment
- allergy
- atrophy
- blemish
- blight
- bug
- cachexia
- cachexy
- catch
- complaint
- complication
- condition
- cowardice
- crack
- danger
- debilitation
- debility
- decay
- decrepitude
- defect
- defection
- deficiency
- deformity
- delicacy
- disability
- disease
- disorder
- distemper
- dotage
- drawback
- eld
- endemic
- enervation
- enfeeblement
- exhaustion
- failing
- failure
- faintheartedness
- faintness
- fault
- fear
- feeblemindedness
- feebleness
- flaw
- foible
- fragility
- frailness
- frailty
- handicap
- hazard
- hole
- hypochondria
- hypochondriasis
- ill
- illness
- imperfection
- inadequacy
- incapacity
- indisposition
- insecurity
- insipidity
- instability
- insubstantiality
- invalidism
- invalidity
- kink
- longevity
- malady
- malaise
- morbidity
- morbidness
- morbus
- oldness
- pathology
- peril
- perilousness
- pliability
- precariousness
- problem
- ricketiness
- rift
- risk
- riskiness
- rockiness
- seediness
- senility
- shakiness
- shiftiness
- shortcoming
- sickness
- slipperiness
- snag
- softness
- speculativeness
- spinelessness
- superannuation
- syndrome
- taint
- treachery
- undependability
- unhealthiness
- unreliability
- unsoundness
- unsteadiness
- untrustworthiness
- unwholesomeness
- valetudinarianism
- vapidity
- vice
- wasting
- wateriness
- weakening
- weakness
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights, and live laborious days;
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears
And slits the thin-spun life.
