invalidism

From invalid + -ism.

invalidism (countable and uncountable, plural invalidisms)

1. The condition of an invalid; sickness; infirmity.
   • 1978, David Galloway, A Family Album, London: John Calder, →ISBN, page 36:

     After two years of swaddled invalidism, Mrs. Morton emitted a final gassy sigh and died, whereas twenty years later Elihu was to go “just like that,” as the neighbors said, from a stroke.

• invalidhood

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “invalidism”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “invalidism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.