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invalidity
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun invalidity has 1 sense
- invalidity(n = noun.attribute) invalidness - illogicality as a consequence of having a conclusion that does not follow from the premisses; Array is a kind of illogic, illogicality, illogicalness, inconsequence
has particulars: fallaciousness
Derived form adjective invalid1
CIDE DICTIONARY
invalidity, n. [Cf. F. invalidité, LL. invaliditas lack of health.].
- Lack of validity or cogency; lack of legal force or efficacy; invalidness; as, the invalidity of an agreement or of a will. [1913 Webster]
- Lack of health; infirmity. Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
invalidity, n.
1 lack of validity.
2 bodily infirmity.
1 lack of validity.
2 bodily infirmity.
Etymology
F invalidit{eacute} or med.L invaliditas (as INVALID(1))
ROGET THESAURUS
invalidity
Impotence
N impotence, inability, disability, disablement, impuissance, imbecility, incapacity, incapability, inaptitude, ineptitude, incompetence, unproductivity, indocility, invalidity, disqualification, inefficiency, wastefulness, telum imbelle, brutum fulmen, blank, blank cartridge, flash in the pan, vox et proeterea nihil, dead letter, bit of waste paper, dummy, paper tiger, Quaker gun, inefficacy, failure, helplessness, prostration, paralysis, palsy, apoplexy, syncope, sideration, deliquium, collapse, exhaustion, softening of the brain, inanition, emasculation, orchiotomy, orchotomy, cripple, old woman, muff, powder puff, creampuff, pussycat, wimp, mollycoddle, eunuch, powerless, impotent, unable, incapable, incompetent, inefficient, ineffective, inept, unfit, unfitted, unqualified, disqualified, unendowed, inapt, unapt, crippled, disabled, armless, harmless, unarmed, weaponless, defenseless, sine ictu, unfortified, indefensible, vincible, pregnable, untenable, paralytic, paralyzed, palsied, imbecile, nerveless, sinewless, marrowless, pithless, lustless, emasculate, disjointed, out of joint, out of gear, unnerved, unhinged, water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless, laid on one's back, done up, dead beat, exhausted, shattered, demoralized, graveled, helpless, unfriended, fatherless, without a leg to stand on, hors de combat, laid on the shelf, null and void, nugatory, inoperative, good for nothing, ineffectual, inadequate, inefficacious, der kranke Mann, desirous still but impotent to rise, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
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