weakness 
weak·ness (-nis)
noun
- the state or quality of being weak
- a weak point; fault or defect, as in one's character
- a liking; esp., an immoderate fondness (for something)
- something of which one is immoderately fond candy is my one weakness
weakness
n.
The state of being weak
feebleness, senility, anility, delicacy, invalidity, frailty, faintness, prostration, anoxia, anoxemia, decrepitude, debility, effeminacy impotence, enervation, dizziness, femininity, infirmity. An instance or manner of being weak
fault, failing, deficiency, defect, disturbance, lapse, vice, sore point, gap, flaw, instability, indecision, inconstancy, vulnerability. *Inclination
liking, tendency, bent; see hunger, inclination 1. See syn. study at fault.
Converse of object
- expose: A number of the weaknesses exposed by earlier surveys continue to be an issue for us.
- exploit: Enemies will exploit these weaknesses no matter what we decide about fighting at one level or another.
- overcome: Finally, the authors propose a new metric that tries to overcome the weaknesses of the evaluated metrics.
- perceive: That something was finally done has much to do with the perceived weakness of the Royal Navy at that time.
- outweigh: Also, in eight out of ten areas assessed by the Audit Commission, strengths outweighed weaknesses.
- identify: Unfortunately neither of these studies controlled for gender in the subject groups however both studies identified the same weakness with the method of limits.
Converse of subject
- characterize: Motor neuron disease is another degenerative disorder that affects the brain and spinal cord and is characterized by weakness and wasting of the muscles.
Adjective modifier
- inherent: The longer game length powerfully highlighted the inherent weakness of the design; luck played far too large a part in the outcome.
- muscular: Muscular weakness is a major problem in older people with arthritis.
- methodological: Sometime ago a meta-analysis was published that underlined the methodological weakness of the of the pharmacological research in the field of homeopathy.
- structural: The Chinese economy currently reflects these key structural weaknesses.
- glaring: One of the most glaring weaknesses of the 1999 Constitution is that it begins with a falsehood.
- fatal: Assuming it doesn't can be a fatal weakness.
Noun used with modifier
- muscle: Rarely people can get: Muscle pain, muscle tenderness, muscle weakness.
- overwork: Overwork weakness with evidence of muscle damage in a patient with residual paralysis from polio.
- limb: Symptoms such as drowsiness, headaches, confusion, limb weakness and visual problem begin to show.
Possessives
- euro: Some believe that millions of such small trades, as much as transatlantic asset flows, are the cause of the euro's weakness.
- opponent: Opponents ' weaknesses or have pioneered a fastest growing online.
Preposition: of
The feeling individual appeared weaköhe felt only his own weakness.But if he accepted his weakness and his separateness and descended into himself, intensifying his loneliness, he discovered his solidarity with other isolated creatures.
I wander through each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
A pard-like Spirit, beautiful and swiftö A love in desolation masked;öa Power Girt round with weakness;öit can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour; It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow;öeven whilst we speak Is it not broken? Shelley
Not Eve, whose fault was only too much love, Which made her give this present to her dear, That what she tasted he likewise might prove, Whereby his knowledge might become more clear; He never sought her weakness to reprove With those sharp words which he of God did hear; Yet men will boast of knowledge, which he took From Eve's fair hand, as from a learned book.
We hardly know any instance of the strength and weakness of humannaturesostriking, and sogrotesque, as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stockingöhalf Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison inone pocket, and a quire of bad verses in the other.
My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest, In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer, Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much.
But surely Adam cannot be excused; Her fault though great, yet he was most to blame; What weakness offered, strength might have refused, Being lord of all, the greater was the shame.
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.He it iswho notesthat individuality whichistheseal oftheweakness ofourrace.Mysoul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.
And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure, Didst tread on Earth unguessed at.öBetter so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole speech in that victorious brow. Arnold
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