Synonyms of the word

cachexia

• n. (medicine, pathology) A systemic wasting of muscle tissue, with or without loss of fat mass, that accompanies…

cachexy

• n. (medicine, archaic) Cachexia.

debility

• n. A state of physical or mental weakness.

feebleness

• n. The quality or state of being feeble; debility; infirmity.

frailness

• n. The state of being frail; frailty; weakness.

frailty

• n. (uncountable) The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; frailness; infirmity;…
• n. A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.

infirmity

• n. feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age.
• n. a moral weakness or defect.

valetudinarianism

• n. The condition of a valetudinarian; a state of feeble health; infirmity.

wasting

• adj. Causing a waste, particularly a wasting disease which causes pronounced loss of body mass.
• v. present participle of waste.
• n. Gradual deterioration or wasting away.
• n. The act by which something is laid waste; destruction.