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weakness noun [ ˈwiːknəs ]

• the state or condition of being weak.
• "the country's weakness in international dealings"
Similar: frailty, feebleness, enfeeblement, puniness, fragility, delicateness, delicacy, weakliness, infirmity, sickness, sickliness, shakiness, debility, incapacity, indisposition, decrepitude, enervation, fatigue, exhaustion, tiredness, weediness, spinelessness, timidity, cravenness, cowardliness, pusillanimity, timorousness, indecisiveness, indecision, irresolution, ineffectuality, uselessness, ineptness, ineptitude, effeteness, meekness, tameness, powerlessness, ineffectiveness, impotence, faint-heartedness, chicken-heartedness, inadequacy, defectiveness, faultiness, deficiency, imperfection, unconvincingness, untenability, tenuousness, implausibility, unsatisfactoriness, slightness, poverty, thinness, transparency, unsoundness, flimsiness, lameness, hollowness, indistinctness, muffledness, mutedness, faintness, lowness, low intensity, dimness, paleness, wanness, dullness,
Opposite: strength, vigour, resolve, power,
• a disadvantage or fault.
• "you must recognize your product's strengths and weaknesses"
Similar: fault, flaw, defect, deficiency, weak point/spot, failing, foible, shortcoming, imperfection, blemish, Achilles heel, chink in one's armour,
Opposite: strength, forte,
• a person or thing that one is unable to resist or likes excessively.
• "you're his one weakness—he should never have met you"


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