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weakness

[ week-nis ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the state or quality of being weak; lack of strength, firmness, vigor, or the like; feebleness.
Synonyms: fragility
Antonyms: strength
an inadequate or defective quality, as in a person's character; slight fault or defect:
to show great sympathy for human weaknesses.
Synonyms: flaw
a self-indulgent liking or special fondness, as for a particular thing:
I've always had a weakness for the opera.
Synonyms: appetite, hunger, passion, penchant
an object of special desire; something very difficult to resist:
Chocolates were her weakness.

weakness

/ ˈwiːknɪs /

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English waikenes, weikenes. See weak, -ness

In fact, experts in airport security have long worried about this weakness.

Koenig apologies for what she seems to treat as a sign of weakness.

She became extremely unpopular and was widely blamed for the King's growing weakness as he aged.

A situation like the current one is likely to accentuate his weakness.

Yes, 2014 was a big Republican win, but this idea that Obama showed exceptional weakness in the midterms is simply inaccurate.

More foolish, more culpable weakness was never shown than in thus yielding to these schemes.

He was guilty of the weakness of taking refuge in what is called, I believe, in legal phrase, a side-issue.

Allcraft winced, as every syllable made known the speaker's actual strength—his own dependence and utter weakness.

Cleverly though they manipulate, cleanliness is not their besetting weakness.

Again, he may grow faint and dizzy when he has climbed only a part of the way, or he may lose his hold from very weakness.

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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