weakliness

Definition of weaklinessnext

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Noun
  • Fox, 64, has worked for decades with Parkinson’s disease, which he was diagnosed with at age 29 in the early 1990s but kept private until 1998.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • For instance, there may be more car crashes, animal bites, property damage and zoonotic disease transmission.
    Daniel T. Blumstein, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Miscellaneous The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these Official Rules or the Affidavit will not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision.
    USA TODAY, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
  • This latest result has nothing to say about parallel universes, the multiverse, or the validity or invalidity of any of the still-viable interpretations of quantum mechanics.
    Big Think, Big Think, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Since the 1970s, feminist scholars have been actively documenting the ways menstruation has been used to ground false arguments about women’s weakness, invalidism, and inferiority in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
  • As Eliot went through a crisis involving his turn to Christianity, Vivien’s invalidism, and his mother’s death, his letters got more and more intense and confessional.
    Christopher Tayler, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
Noun
  • Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Survivors may look thin and suffer from lameness until their condition improves.
    Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Signs of disease include warts on legs, crusty or swollen eyes, feebleness, a ruffled appearance, difficulty breathing, nasal discharge, and diarrhea.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 5 Mar. 2026
  • When hair endures damage from styling treatments, color, or heat, the hair’s keratin composition can be compromised, leading to feebleness and a greater risk of breakage.
    Sophie Wirt, InStyle, 26 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • His trajectory is one of softening, from the swaggering knight of the opening to the irrepressible lover of the second act to his final physical debility.
    Justin Davidson, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2026
  • In Will There Ever Be Another You, the main character struggles with an illness similar to long COVID, descending into a state of debility and psychosis as readers experience the chaos of her unraveling life.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The series’ opening scene plops audiences in the middle of the Dardanos’ dysfunction, as Linda, presiding over her own mother’s hospital room, screeches that her children should bear witness to their terminally ill nonna’s final days—even to her urinary incontinence.
    Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Secession and separation movements broadly reflect legitimate concerns about governmental responsiveness and representation, with experts noting that as people become more disenfranchised from the political process, exploring alternative solutions becomes a natural response to systemic dysfunction.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Years of the petrodollar’s weakening grasp The petrodollar’s weakness has been quietly exposed for even years prior to Saudi Arabia’s currency swap with China.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Reinsdorf also emphasized the importance of both internal and external communication for a new hire, a notable weakness of the Karnišovas administration.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
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“Weakliness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weakliness. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.

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