Synonyms for weaknesses
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : week-nis |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈwik nɪs |
Top 10 synonyms for weaknesses Other synonyms for the word weaknesses
- Achilles heel
- appetite
- blemish
- chink in armor
- debility
- decrepitude
- delicacy
- enervation
- faintness
- fault
- feebleness
- fondness
- impairment
- imperfection
- impotence
- inclination
- inconstancy
- indecision
- infirmity
- invalidity
- irresolution
- languor
- liking
- passion
- penchant
- powerlessness
- predilection
- proclivity
- prostration
- senility
- soft spot
- sore point
- taste
- vice
- vitiation
- vulnerability
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for weaknesses
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