infirmness

English

Etymology

From infirm +‎ -ness.

Noun

infirmness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being infirm; feebleness or illness.
   • 1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Henry Herringman […], published 1670, →OCLC:

     For both which purposes I thought it requisite to do these two things ; the one , to set down some experiments , which by the help of the reflections and insinuations that attend them , may assist you to discover the infirmness and insufficiency both of the common Peripatetic doctrine, and of the now more applauded theory of the chymists about colour

References

• “infirmness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.