feebleness

NOUN

lack of strength; ineffectiveness

Synonyms

STRONG

debility decrepitude delicacy disease enervation etiolation exhaustion flimsiness frailness frailty inability inadequacy incapacity incompetence ineffectualness infirmity insignificance insufficiency lameness languor lassitude malaise senility unhealthiness weakness

WEAK

effeteness infirmness sickliness

Antonyms

STRONG

ability good health health healthiness robustness strength sufficiency vigor

WEAK

effectiveness heartiness power soundness

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Feebleness of Pope.—Morse and companions visit Naples, Capri, and Amalfi.—Charms of Amalfi.—Terrible accident.—Flippancy at funerals.—

From Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Morse, Samuel F. B. (Samuel Finley Breese)

Feebleness of mind complicated by illness is noted in 20 per cent. of the cases.

From Mentally Defective Children by Binet, Alfred

Feebleness and dismay vanished with the first plunge into the still sleepy sea, and alertness and vigour returned, as the incense of the first morning's sacrifice went straight as a column to the sky.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

Feebleness of the imagination a source of legends and myths, 347.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

Feebleness of will brings about weakness of head, and the abyss in spite of its horror, comes to fascinate us, as though it were a place of refuge.

From Amiel's Journal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

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