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weakness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of weakness

1 the quality or state of lacking physical strength or vigor

  • the flu left me with such overwhelming weakness that I could hardly stand
Synonyms of weakness

asthenia, debilitation, debility, delicacy, enervation, enfeeblement, faintness, feebleness, fragility, frailness, frailty, infirmity, languidness, languor, listlessness, lowness, wimpiness
Words Related to weakness

decay, decrepitude

breakdown, collapse, prostration

exhaustion, fatigue, lassitude, weariness

defenselessness, helplessness, impotence, impuissance, powerlessness

effeteness, softness, tenderness

disablement, incapacitation, invalidism

damage, harm, hurt, impairment, injury
Near Antonyms of weakness

energy, vitality

brawniness, fitness, heftiness, huskiness, lustiness, muscularity, virility

hardness, ruggedness, stoutness, sturdiness, toughness

health, healthiness, soundness, wellness
Antonyms of weakness

hardihood, hardiness, robustness, strength, vigor

2 the quality or state of lacking strength of will or character

  • in a moment of weakness he said yes to his daughter's request for a new toy
Synonyms of weakness

frailness, frailty, softness, spinelessness, wimpiness, wimpishness, wishy-washiness
Words Related to weakness

collapse

failing, flaw, foible, peccadillo

evil, immorality, wickedness

corruption, corruptness
Near Antonyms of weakness

discipline, self-discipline

goodness, integrity, morality, rectitude, righteousness, rightness, uprightness, virtuousness
Antonyms of weakness

backbone, chutzpah (also chutzpa), firmness, fortitude, hardihood, mettle, moxie, nerve, resoluteness, strength, toughness

3 a defect in character

  • his one weakness is his cockeyed optimism about everything
Synonyms of weakness

demerit, dereliction, failing, fault, foible, frailty, shortcoming, sin, vice, want
Words Related to weakness

blot, spot, stain

blemish, deficiency, flaw, imperfection, minus, nit

Achillesʼ heel, soft spot

corruption, depravity, evil, immorality, sinfulness, wickedness
Phrases Synonymous with weakness

feet of clay
Near Antonyms of weakness

excellence, perfection

goodness, integrity, morality, probity, rectitude, righteousness
Antonyms of weakness

merit, virtue

4 the quality or state of having little resistance to some outside agent

  • the devastating weakness of the immune system that is experienced by people with certain chronic conditions
Synonyms of weakness

defenselessness, susceptibility, vulnerability
Words Related to weakness

helplessness, powerlessness

passiveness, passivity

feebleness, frailness, frailty, infirmity

exposure, liability, openness, predisposition, proneness, sensitivity

receptiveness, receptivity

easiness, gullibility, naïveté (also naivete)

credulity, credulousness
Near Antonyms of weakness

immunity

impenetrability, indomitability, indomitableness, invincibility
Antonyms of weakness

invulnerability

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