invalidism
- noun
- /ɪnˈvælɪdɪzəm/
- Specialized
:
invalidismo
- Sharing Goffman's assumption that devaluation and shame commonly take over the disabled individual's self-concept, other researchers emphasize how that state of mind may also produce resignation, invalidism, and a greatly exaggerated sense of physical weakness.
Examples
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Many people do not understand the emotional toll of invalidism, as it can lead to feelings of isolation and helplessness.
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But then my natural common sense, dulled by all the months of invalidism, returned in a keen rush.
Fiction book (1997) -
Absorbing that tension, Mr. Earnshaw soon succumbs to invalidism and death.
Academic text (1997) -
This novel reminds us that in such family systems, women are not the only victims of split loyalties, triangulation, scapegoating, invalidism, and anorexia.
Academic text (1997) -
During the 1870s, when the exchange took place, Phelps's recurring insomnia became chronic, inaugurating a complete breakdown and an invalidism from which she never recovered.
Fiction book (2001) -
The response of the family and other meaningful people to the patient's illness or disability, to his communications of distress, and to his inability to perform the usual social roles may spell the difference between optimal recovery and psychological invalidism (p. 1200).
Academic text (1994) -
Documenting Catherine Earnshaw's oscillation between hysteria and invalidism (especially anorexia), Cohen resists reading the ending as hopeful.
Academic text (1997) -
After years of battling chronic pain and fatigue, she faced the reality of her invalidism, which made it difficult to maintain a regular job.
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His invalidism prevented him from participating in social activities, making him feel excluded from the life he once enjoyed.
Synonyms
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1.1
A time when a person is sick and cannot do normal things
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4.4
A deep moral problem that harms a person or society
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6.6
A weakness that makes it hard to do everyday things, often after illness or old age
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3.0
Being sick or having a long-term problem with your body
Antonyms
How Debilitated
- Specialized
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3.5
- Specialized
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1.1
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3.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Invalidism comes from invalid, which originally meant 'not strong' in Latin and is made from in- 'not' and validus 'strong', the same root as the English word valid. So, invalidism means the state of being weak or disabled, which is why it is used for long-term ill health or being unable to work.