Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The condition or quality of being weak.
- n. A personal defect or failing.
- n. A special fondness or inclination: has a weakness for fast cars.
- n. Something of which one is excessively fond or desirous: Ice cream is his weakness.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or character of being weak, in any sense; also, a weak point.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The condition of being weak.
- n. countable An inadequate quality; fault
- n. countable A special fondness or desire.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness.
- n. That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a penchant for something even though it might not be good for you
- n. the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain
- n. powerlessness revealed by an inability to act
- n. the condition of being financially weak
- n. a flaw or weak point
Etymologies
- weak + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Sen. Clinton's main weakness is her high negatives.”
“But, I think, you're dead right, Democrats don't like the term weakness but Barack Obama has needs and the fact that he has needs coming into his convention and what should be, by fundamentals, an overwhelmingly Democratic year, has many of the people who will be here in this hall, more than a little anxious.”
“For my characters Mithro and Caesar, their weakness is the limitations of their powers.”
“The Swiss National Bank said it would work closely with the banking regulator to improve what it described as weakness in the Swiss banking sector.”
The Wall Street Journal: Swiss Central Bank Backs Tighter Rules
“The Swiss National Bank said Thursday that it would work closely with the banking regulator to improve what it described as weakness in the Swiss banking sector.”
“But, a weakness is a weakness, and I've already put in my order and spent the requisite amount that will get me free delivery.”
“Underlying this weakness is the American insistence on rejecting significant international participation and on making the tribunal a national court — here, in a place that is not really a nation, decimated by decades of repression and war.”
“The United States is blessed with a very vital and dynamic labor market, but our weakness -- and it's a long-term weakness, this isn't a sudden weakness -- our weakness has been our failure to invest well and systematically in our people -- their skills, their capacities to innovate and their ability to work together constructively.”
“If there is what you call weakness, wouldn't the army be good for it?”
“They would learn that what they call weakness desirably lends delicacy, tenderness, spiritual and moral loveliness to existence which the coarse bigness and bow-wowness of the German ideal itself will never attain ....”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘weakness’.
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Buttery
Words that make me feel cozy
Feather, Mug, Knit, Socks, Snug, Soft, Butter, Nugget, Noodle, Curl, Billow, Lounge and 315 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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Idk, I like these words.
ethereality, apathy, consideration, soul, safety, lone wolf, darkness, pressure, ocean, few, collapse, believe and 155 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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♡LOVE and things like it♡
dedicated to my man Steven, without whom i would be addicted to drugs, lying in a gutter, hating myself, or hooking somewhere :)
affectionate, amative, amatory, amiable, ammophilous, amorous, ardent, attached to, attracted to, beloved, bewitching, bitten and 404 more...
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Theme Prompts
There's a fiction meme (mostly on Livejournal) where writers use words as a prompt for a short story snippet. I've been collecting the words that show up on these lists as prompts for creative writ...
white, black, gray, red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, violet, queen, king, prince and 407 more...
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Permutations
There are 17576 different sequences of three letters (26 x 26 x 26). How many of them occur in words? General rules of engagement: mononyms only, lower case preferred to upper case, short preferred...
aaargh, niqaabi, Isaac, raad, baaed, haaf, laager, aah, kamaaina, Naajaat, aak, aalii and 637 more...
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Smallville
words relating to the TV show Smallville (the early years of Clark Kent!)
fly, friends, lies, super, shelby, daily planet, save, kansas, cornfields, barn, mansion, wall of weird and 74 more...
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coffeezombie's Words
spam, recent, books, hypographia, zombie, register, join, nonsense, criterion, arcane, axe, scrabble and 19 more...
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Anything negative
apathy, suicide, depression, loneliness, forgotten, fate, lonesome, desolate, weakness, dreadful, forsaken, anxious and 24 more...
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