This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

• Lexulous
• Wordscraper
• Wordosaur

n. Cachexia.

n. A morbid condition of the body, resulting either from general disease (as syphilitic cachexy) or from a local disease.

n. A perverted or depraved habit of thought or feeling.

n. any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease

"The second consideration is that of health: a severe illness may alarm us for the time being, but an illness of a chronic nature or even cachexy frightens us away, because it would be transmitted."

feebleness    infirmity    frailty    frailness    debility   

negro cachexy   

snake-bite    tremens    syncope    encephalitis