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weakliness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | infirmity |
| Synonyms: | affliction, ailing, ailment, confinement, debilitation, debility, decay, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, delicacy, delicateness, disease, diseasedness, disorder, failing, fault, feebleness, flimsiness, flu, fragileness, fragility, frailness, frailty, ill health, imperfection, indisposition, insubstantiality, malady, malaise, puniness, shortcoming, sickliness, unhealth, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unsubstantiality, unwellness, vulnerability, weakness* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | fragileness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | frailness |
| Synonyms: | debility, decrepitude, delicacy, delicateness, enfeeblement, feebleness, flimsiness, fragility, frailty, infirmity, unsoundness, weakliness, weakness |
| Main Entry: | frailness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fragileness |
| Synonyms: | debility, decrepitude, delicacy, delicateness, enfeeblement, feebleness, flimsiness, fragility, frailty, infirmity, unsoundness, weakliness, weakness |
| Main Entry: | insubstantiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | infirmity |
| Synonyms: | affliction, ailing, ailment, confinement, debilitation, debility, decay, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, delicacy, delicateness, disease, diseasedness, disorder, failing, fault, feebleness, flimsiness, flu, fragileness, fragility, frailness, frailty, ill health, imperfection, indisposition, malady, malaise, puniness, shortcoming, sickliness, unhealth, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unsubstantiality, unwellness, vulnerability, weakliness, weakness* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | puniness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | infirmity |
| Synonyms: | affliction, ailing, ailment, confinement, debilitation, debility, decay, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, delicacy, delicateness, disease, diseasedness, disorder, failing, fault, feebleness, flimsiness, flu, fragileness, fragility, frailness, frailty, ill health, imperfection, indisposition, insubstantiality, malady, malaise, shortcoming, sickliness, unhealth, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unsubstantiality, unwellness, vulnerability, weakliness, weakness* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unsoundness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | infirmity |
| Synonyms: | affliction, ailing, ailment, confinement, debilitation, debility, decay, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, delicacy, delicateness, disease, diseasedness, disorder, failing, fault, feebleness, flimsiness, flu, fragileness, fragility, frailness, frailty, ill health, imperfection, indisposition, insubstantiality, malady, malaise, puniness, shortcoming, sickliness, unhealth, unhealthiness, unsubstantiality, unwellness, vulnerability, weakliness, weakness* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unsubstantiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | infirmity |
| Synonyms: | affliction, ailing, ailment, confinement, debilitation, debility, decay, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, delicacy, delicateness, disease, diseasedness, disorder, failing, fault, feebleness, flimsiness, flu, fragileness, fragility, frailness, frailty, ill health, imperfection, indisposition, insubstantiality, malady, malaise, puniness, shortcoming, sickliness, unhealth, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unwellness, vulnerability, weakliness, weakness* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Concept: | Unsubstantiality. |
| Category: | 2. BEING, IN THE CONCRETE |
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-nouns
shadow; phantom, (fallacy of vision) [more]; dream (imagination); ignis fatuus (luminary); " such stuff as dreams are made of " [Tempest]; air, thin air, vapor; bubble; " baseless fabric of a vision " [Tempest]; mockery., hollowness, blank; void (absence)., inanity, fool's paradise.
-verbs
vanish, evaporate, fade, dissolve, melt away; disappear.
-adjectives
unsubstantial; baseless, groundless; ungrounded; without foundation, having no foundation., visionary (imaginary); immaterial. [more]; spectral; dreamy; shadowy; ethereal, airy; cloud built, cloud formed; gossamery, illusory, insubstantial, unreal., vacant, vacuous; empty. [more]; eviscerated; blank, hollow; nominal; null; inane.
-phrases
there's nothing in it; "an ocean of dreams without a sound" [Shelley].
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| Antonyms: | substantiality |
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