n. The state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity, or physical distress due to poor health, especially of a chronic nature.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The quality or state of being sickly.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The state or quality of being sickly, in any sense; tendency to be sick or to cause sickness; sickly appearance or demeanor.
Word Usage
"As she approached Julie she raised her eyes absently, and Julie saw a face of singular and delicate beauty, marred, however, by the suggestion of physical fragility, even sickliness, which is carried with it."