weakness

noun

1 his illness resulted in weakness for the rest of his life:

frailty, feebleness, enfeeblement, puniness, fragility, delicateness, delicacy, weakliness;

infirmity, sickness, sickliness, shakiness, debility, incapacity, indisposition, decrepitude, enervation, fatigue, exhaustion, tiredness;

informal weediness.

▷antonyms strength, vigour.

2 he has worked on his weaknesses and his form has improved:

fault, flaw, defect, deficiency, weak point/spot, failing, foible, shortcoming, imperfection, blemish, Achilles heel, chink in one's armour.

▷antonyms strength, forte.

3 he had a weakness for champagne:

fondness, liking, love, passion, partiality, preference, penchant, soft spot, bent, predisposition, predilection, leaning, inclination, proneness, proclivity, disposition, taste, eye;

relish, zeal, enthusiasm, appetite.

▷antonyms dislike.

4 the President's public changes of mind led to accusations of indecision and weakness:

spinelessness, timidity, cravenness, cowardliness, pusillanimity, timorousness, indecisiveness, indecision, irresolution, ineffectuality, uselessness, ineptness, ineptitude, effeteness, meekness, tameness, powerlessness, ineffectiveness, impotence, faint-heartedness;

informal chicken-heartedness.

▷antonyms strength, resolve.

5 the symptoms include weakness of the eyes:

inadequacy, defectiveness, faultiness, deficiency, imperfection.

▷antonyms strength, power.

6 the weakness of this argument was soon shown up:

unconvincingness, untenability, tenuousness, implausibility, unsatisfactoriness, slightness, poverty, inadequacy, thinness, transparency;

unsoundness, flimsiness, lameness, hollowness.

▷antonyms strength.

7 the weakness of the sound | the weakness of the street lamps:

indistinctness, muffledness, mutedness, faintness, lowness, low intensity;

dimness, paleness, wanness, dullness, feebleness.

▷antonyms strength.

word links	weakness
asthenophobia fear of weakness

weakness Oxford Dictionary of English