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
  • This can lead to detrimental long-term health effects, such as triggering chronic conditions such as asthma as well as obstructive lung disease like bronchitis.
    Omer Awan, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Some people have trouble absorbing this vitamin due to disease, gastric surgery, or medication.
    Sohaib Imtiaz, Verywell Health, 11 Jan. 2025
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
  • This can lead to a range of health challenges, including developmental delays, organ dysfunction, and severe disabilities.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
  • This mindset can manifest as decreased effort and commitment in their own relationships, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy of dysfunction.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
Definition of dysfunction
Noun
  • More news: Dodgers to Sign Asian Star to 3-Year Contract For teams trying to upgrade a position of weakness on a budget, Moncada could represent a high-upside play on a short-term contract.
    Newsweek, Newsweek, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Several stocks are primed for a bounce after recent weakness at the turn of the new year.
    Pia Singh, CNBC, 4 Jan. 2025
Definition of weakness
Noun
  • Any rescue from the muck rests with ordinary citizens taking city and state government back from the politicians serving special interests rather than their own; and shunting aside the go-along-to-get-along business and civic elites settling for decrepitude.
    Forrest Claypool, Chicago Tribune, 5 Dec. 2024
  • 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
Definition of decrepitude
Noun
  • This fluctuation sets recurring dreams apart from bad dreams triggered by post-traumatic stress disorder, a psychological condition in which people relive specific memories from their waking life with far less variation while asleep.
    Amanda Heidt, Scientific American, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Decades of research into how individuals and crowds actually behave – as well as what drives them into disorder and violence – have debunked these claims.
    Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Jan. 2025
Definition of disorder
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