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Weakness

The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness.

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Narrower term 21

Adynamia 76% connected

Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever.

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Attenuation 76% connected

The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation.

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Delicacy 76% connected

The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like.

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Enervation 76% connected

The act of weakening, or reducing strength.

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Faintness 76% connected

The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control.

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Fatigue 76% connected

Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.

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Feebleness 76% connected

The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity.

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Flaw 76% connected

A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase.

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Flimsiness 76% connected

The state or quality of being flimsy.

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Fragility 76% connected

The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.

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Inadequacy 76% connected

The quality or state of being inadequate or insufficient; defectiveness; insufficiency; inadequateness.

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Inanition 76% connected

The condition of being inane; emptiness; want of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from want of food, either f…

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Insufficiency 76% connected

The quality or state of being insufficient; want of sufficiency; deficiency; inadequateness; as, the insufficiency of provisions, of an excuse, etc.

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Lassitude 76% connected

A condition of the body, or mind, when its voluntary functions are performed with difficulty, and only by a strong exertion of the will; languor; deb…

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Lethargy 76% connected

Morbid drowsiness; continued or profound sleep, from which a person can scarcely be awaked.

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Littleness 76% connected

The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc.

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Slackness 76% connected

The quality or state of being slack.

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Smallness 76% connected

The quality or state of being small.

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Tenuity 76% connected

The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness, applied to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long; as, the tenuity of a le…

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Vulnerability 76% connected

The quality or state of being vulnerable; vulnerableness.

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Imperfection 76% connected

The quality or condition of being imperfect; want of perfection; incompleteness; deficiency; fault or blemish.

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Imperfectness 76% connected

The state of being imperfect.

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Impotence 76% connected

Alt. of Impotency

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Impotency 76% connected

The quality or condition of being impotent; want of strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility.

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Misfortune 76% connected

Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance.

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Penchant 76% connected

Inclination; decided taste; bias; as, a penchant for art.

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Predilection 76% connected

A previous liking; a prepossession of mind in favor of something; predisposition to choose or like; partiality.

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Preference 76% connected

The act of Preferring, or the state of being preferred; the setting of one thing before another; precedence; higher estimation; predilection; choice;…

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Property 76% connected

That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as,…

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Taste 76% connected

To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow.

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Impuissant 74% connected

Weak; impotent; feeble.

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Impuissant 74% connected

Weak; impotent; feeble.

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Weak 74% connected

Wanting physical strength.

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Weak 74% connected

Wanting physical strength.

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Synonym 2

Failing 92% connected

of Fail

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Impuissance 92% connected

Lack of power; inability.

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Strength 94% connected

The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force;…

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Strength 94% connected

The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force;…

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