Antonyms for weaknesses

Grammar : Noun

Spell : week-nis

Phonetic Transcription : ˈwik nɪs

Definition of weaknesses

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

Example sentences :

He was used to dealing with pique in women, and had found it the most manageable of weaknesses.
Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

She knew him now—all his small indolences, his affectations, his weaknesses.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

There is nothing like building our fortune on the weaknesses of mankind.'
Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens

It is entirely free from the weaknesses of the ordinary Sunday school book.
Extract from : « The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys » by Gulielma Zollinger

Ought he not to be dead to all the weaknesses of this world?
Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola

All these fellers 'ave got two weaknesses—one's ideas, and the other's their own importance.
Extract from : « The Burning Spear » by John Galsworthy

The present method of income tax, however, has some weaknesses.
Extract from : « Herbert Hoover » by Vernon Kellogg

He took to cards in a manner that frightened even me, used as I was to his weaknesses.
Extract from : « The Golden Woman » by Ridgwell Cullum

But weaknesses of this kind were nothing as compared with the threatened weakness in men.
Extract from : « The Siege of Boston » by Allen French

He possessed the Hebrew weaknesses both as regards gold and beauty.
Extract from : « Sir Jasper Carew » by Charles James Lever

Synonyms for weaknesses

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