Antonyms for weakness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : week-nis |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈwik nɪs |
Definition of weakness
Origin :- c.1300, "quality of being weak," from weak + -ness. Meaning "a disadvantage, vulnerability" is from 1590s. That of "self-indulgent fondness" is from 1712; meaning "thing for which one has an indulgent fondness" is from 1822.
- noun defect, proneness
- Making an effort to rise, he seemed surprised at his own weakness.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- In spite of her calculations, in spite of her love of money, he could make her feel her weakness.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Would he be strong or weak; and what would be weakness, and what strength, in a position so strange?
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Be happy, and rejoice in your weakness—but turn now to the strong for strength.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- You have summoned me in my weakness; you must sustain me by your strength.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- He measured your blindness and weakness by the standard of His own knowledge and almightiness.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
- The unfit brought in for strength are weakness and destruction.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- He fell on the floor, and in weakness mixed with cowardice lay where he fell.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- The son met his father's gaze with a level look in which there was no weakness.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- It was the best he could do, and it shamed him, for he knew its weakness.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
Synonyms for weakness
- Achilles heel
- appetite
- blemish
- chink in armor
- debility
- decrepitude
- deficiency
- delicacy
- enervation
- failing
- faintness
- fault
- feebleness
- flaw
- fondness
- fragility
- frailty
- gap
- impairment
- imperfection
- impotence
- inclination
- inconstancy
- indecision
- infirmity
- instability
- invalidity
- irresolution
- lack
- languor
- lapse
- liking
- passion
- penchant
- powerlessness
- predilection
- proclivity
- prostration
- senility
- shortcoming
- soft spot
- sore point
- taste
- vice
- vitiation
- vulnerability
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