"struldbruggian" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the name of a class of people in Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels, who are immortal but remain susceptible to aging and disease.",
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      "form": "more struldbruggian",
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      "form": "most struldbruggian",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "name": "Immortality",
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        {
          "ref": "1968, University of Toronto Quarterly, volume 38, page 72:",
          "text": "Tithonus, reaching for immortality, achieves only a struldbruggian kind of existence; and Ulysses in his infinite search for knowledge sets out with his mariners on that final voyage that leads them only deathward.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Jeff McMahan, The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life:",
          "text": "In short, if we imagine a person continuing to live indefinitely while remaining vulnerable to such evils as disease, injury, and aging, we are in effect imagining a struldbruggian immortality.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having or relating to an unsatisfactory form of immortality accompanied by aging and disease."
      ],
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          "unsatisfactory",
          "unsatisfactory"
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          "immortality",
          "immortality"
        ],
        [
          "aging",
          "aging"
        ],
        [
          "disease",
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  "word": "struldbruggian"
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  "etymology_text": "From the name of a class of people in Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels, who are immortal but remain susceptible to aging and disease.",
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        "comparative"
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    {
      "form": "most struldbruggian",
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