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noun

the state or quality of being weak; lack of strength, firmness, vigor, or the like; feebleness.

an inadequate or defective quality, as in a person's character; slight fault or defect: to show great sympathy for human weaknesses.

a self-indulgent liking or special fondness, as for a particular thing: I've always had a weakness for the opera.

an object of special desire; something very difficult to resist: Chocolates were her weakness.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English weikenes. See weak, -ness

Related forms

non·weak·ness, noun

Synonyms
1. fragility. 2. flaw. See fault. 3. penchant, passion, hunger, appetite.

Antonyms
1. strength.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Hypokalemic periodic paralysis is an inherited disorder that causes occasional episodes of muscle weakness.

More benign areas of weakness are things such as shyness.

Cries of distress from the high street point to further weakness in consumer spending in the second quarter.

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Hypokalemic periodic paralysis is an inherited disorder that causes occasional episodes of muscle weakness.

More benign areas of weakness are things such as shyness.

Cries of distress from the high street point to further weakness in consumer spending in the second quarter.

I'll confess to a weakness for any country where they give such beautiful ribbons to eggs.

Many people still chalk up the destructive behavior of a drug addict to a lack of willpower or weakness of character.

She will always find a weakness and expose it to us.

The bat's weakness as well as its strength lies in its wings.

Always spin your weakness into something positive if they ask that dreaded question about your weakness.

If a recession is beginning and employees have to be laid off, a dedicated workforce might be a weakness.

It may cause weakness in muscles as well as heart, liver, and spleen damage.

Earthquakes occur when such faults slip due to weakness or stress.

However, this dependence on the television was something of a weakness.

Weakness of the lower legs is possible as the disorder gets worse.

But even seasoned editors acknowledge the weakness of that defense line.

But a broader investigation of the weakness of the force as a whole is more pressing.

First of all, one weakness is occasionally buying drinks at convenience stores.

Weakness in arteries can lead to reduced blood flow if the weak area bulges outward, forming an aneurysm.

Online forums are cruel places, and you must show no weakness.

The weakness can be severe enough to interfere with walking.

My prediction was based on the weakness in fundamental economic indicators.

Europe's efforts to contain the dollar's weakness have had rather less impact.

Remember, dogs can sense weakness from those who are perceived to be weak-minded.

These characteristics, and the weakness of the tremors, make them hard to spot.

But the industry was showing major signs of weakness before the accident.

What was once considered a moral weakness became an intellectual mandate.

The rigged election and her own release speak more of the generals' self-confidence than their weakness.

Dogs don't know grief, but they sense it is a weakness in the human.

It affects the ulnar nerve, and one of the typical signs of cubital and carpal tunnel is hand weakness.

It also looks great, and appeals to my coffee gadget weakness.

Furthermore, there is a rhetorical weakness in this juxtaposition.

Keepeng attacking our economy will enlight other country's weakness.

It has also identified weakness in monitoring and inadequate evidence to support some remediation technologies now in place.

The human capacity of empathy is really profound, and that's part of our weakness.

It wasn't due to any intrinsic weakness in my research or my writing.

The president's re-election chances increasingly rest on the weakness of his opponents.

Microsoft first discovered the weakness in the product last summer, and issued a security advisory.

The weakness of stockmarkets and dearth of mergers and acquisitions continue to spell hard times for investment banks.

Keep your weakness for hair metal to yourself by cutting that volume in half.

Gaffes are damaging when they seem to corroborate some weakness that has already led to questions about a candidate.

The recent equity-market weakness seems to have caught many traders by surprise.

The island nations spoke from a position of weakness.

Second is the weakness or even hostility of relations among its separate allies.

We don't need to reach for alternative explanations of economic weakness while these conditions persist.

Weakness is more noticeable when it is in one area.

Well, in every pack, there is a source of weakness and a source of strength.

But its one weakness could pose a problem, as the military.

Facebook's network is a weakness as well as a strength because it greatly amplifies the company's problems.

And you may run into critics who can't see past that weakness and indulge in a nuclear veto of your candidacy.

It is an odd weakness that sometimes overcomes photographers.

One reason why people describe smells differently is a weakness of the nose.

He said patent application's weakness lies in its failure to reference the huge body of knowledge in the natural language area.

The virtue arises out of an abiding knowledge of our own failure, sin, weakness and.

Or they target the person who they perceive some weakness in and who they dislike.

European cities dominate the list, reflecting the weakness of the dollar.

It seems probable that the attackers were aware of these weakness and designed their attack to exploit.

The great weakness of this economic system is that it does not rest on a foundation of real domestic industrial capacity.

The only concomitant weakness of relevance to this discussion is the lack of transparency.

It shows weakness and lack of self-confidence and lack of ability to express yourself.

Her intuition, her imagination are at once her strength and her weakness.

For us our weakness is our dependence on science to answer all our needs.

Profit in the quarter was hurt by higher costs and weakness in the commercial foods business.

Weakness coupled with narcissism is not an attractive combination.

The surprising weakness was caused in part by unusually cold weather but it is not fully explained by it.

In the present day, weakness or absence of media and new media.

In fact, the pound's recent weakness has reinforced the economic case for staying out.

Your claim that religion exploits human weakness is false, and derogatory, another example of the intrinsic biasness of atheism.

The obsession with brands, paradoxically, demonstrates their weakness.

If the candidate has problem, he/she will eventually show his/her weakness during the interview.

The first widespread weakness is poor trading controls.

S suis microbes lurk for years until a moment of immunological weakness.

I've been paying for it the last couple of days with extra tiredness and leg weakness.

It may also have prevented accusations that one country was trying to shift the burden of economic weakness onto others.

Neitz notes that the weakness might be attributable to the need for improvement on the human end in perfecting the treatment.

As usual, the strengths of the medium are also its weakness.

Any attempts to take the high road will simply be exploited as a weakness.

More controversial is the question of how long the weakness will last.

Also, energy and muscle weakness are par for the course.

Weakness in a boss does not normally make a firm seem stronger.

The growth of for profit education has more to say about that weakness of the traditional model than about fraud.

Yet ambivalence about politics can also be a weakness.

If you give in or show weakness when they are pushing you, they will use that as incentive to push more.

Indeed, this move should probably be seen as a sign of weakness and disorganisation.

To me, this would appear to indicate a weakness in a colleague.

Faculty don't want to know, because it would expose the weakness of their teaching and take time from research.

However, its major weakness would be a lack of calendar features, such as due dates and scheduling.

In a capitalistic system, there is no greater weakness than distrust in the system.

Having to resort to venom and vulgarity are a good indication of the weakness of your arguments.

But, she sees divorce as a sign of weakness and is afraid of not finding anyone else.

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World English Dictionary

weakness (ˈwiːknɪs)

—n
1.	the state or quality of being weak
2.	a deficiency or failing, as in a person's character
3.	a self-indulgent fondness or liking: a weakness for chocolates

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