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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

Example Sentences

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It is the open door to all the feeblenesses which interfere with the development of poise.

From Poise: How to Attain It by Starke, D.

We tiny, vain feeblenesses, we fussy ephemera; we sting each other, hate each other, hiss at each other, for the sake of the monster gods of our own delirium.

From God and my Neighbour by Blatchford, Robert

He misinterprets them as feeblenesses, as confessions of his dominating rights and privileges.

From Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life by Henry, Stuart Oliver

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