weakliness

noun

Definition of weaklinessnext
as in disease

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weakliness
  1. disease
  2. invalidity
  3. invalidism
  4. debility
  5. dysfunction
  6. weakness
  7. decrepitude
  8. disorder
Noun
  • The diet has been linked to a lower risk of cardiovascular disease and related conditions like obesity, high cholesterol and hypertension.
    Randi Richardson, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Multiple clinical trials are also underway to determine what other diseases GLP-1 drugs may potentially protect against.
    Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of disease
Noun
  • If any provision of these Terms of Use is deemed invalid by an arbitrator or court of competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms of Use, which shall remain in full force and effect.
    Big Think, Big Think, 10 June 2020
  • By the protocol, therefore, Chile gains the relinquishment of Peru's former claims of the invalidity of the entire treaty and notably of the cession of Tarapacá, and leaves open merely the question as to who shall have the unimportant area of Tacna and Arica.
    Edwin M. Borchard, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2011
Definition of invalidity
Noun
  • Each of his figures exists in a limbo of invalidism, enervation, atrophied mythology, Arcadian dreams of bathing beauties, and all our endless Modernist nudes by riverbeds, in parks, beds, stripped naked facing us, or masturbating.
    Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2021
  • As Eliot went through a crisis involving his turn to Christianity, Vivien’s invalidism, and his mother’s death, his letters got more and more intense and confessional.
    Christopher Tayler, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
Definition of invalidism
Noun
  • The shadow of death and debility haunted American women throughout the nineteenth century.
    Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 28 June 2024
  • According to this view, the outside world has been generous to Africa, providing substantial aid in recent decades, leaving no excuse for the continent’s debility.
    Howard W. French, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
Definition of debility
Noun
  • Perhaps the greatest display of this team’s dysfunction was firing Eberflus two hours after sending him out to do a press conference.
    Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Those symptoms can be warning signs of specific types of cognitive dysfunction, like Lewy body and Parkinson’s dementia (which some but not all people with Parkinson’s disease can develop).
    Jessie Van Amburg, SELF, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of dysfunction
Noun
  • Symptoms often include muscle weakness, brain fog, memory impairment, and, to make matters worse, poor sleep quality.
    Brittany Risher, SELF, 6 Dec. 2024
  • While individual consumers’ choices are often at the mercy of industry marketing, businesses can base their decisions on a thorough analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
    Crystal Heath and Gene Baur, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of weakness
Noun
  • Despite Orlok’s prosthetic decrepitude and the plague-like toxicity of his love, what truly horrifies Ellen about him is that some unknown part of her nature craves his touch.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2024
  • His advanced decrepitude will be matched only by the looming threat of irrelevance in a desensitized world.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 25 Oct. 2023
Definition of decrepitude
Noun
  • Over 50% of the population is expected to be diagnosed with a mental health disorder in their lifetime.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Research on curcumin has also shown that its antioxidant properties can help reduce acne and support a healthy aging process, as well as ease inflammatory diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, and eye disorders.
    Devinder Bains, Vogue, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of disorder
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weakliness

weakling

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