feebleness
State of weakness
Feebleness is the state of being feeble—lacking strength, vigor, or effectiveness.
Physical feebleness suggests bodily weakness, often from age or illness: The feebleness in his legs made climbing stairs difficult.
The word also applies to inadequate efforts or arguments: The feebleness of their excuse convinced no one.
Unlike weakness, feebleness carries connotations of something pitiable or contemptible.
Deficiency in force
- frailtyWeakness of body
- debilityImpaired strength or vitality
- infirmityWeakness from illness or age
- enervationLoss of vigor
exhaustion · fatigue · lethargy · languor · weariness · listlessness · malaise · prostration
Failure to achieve results
- powerlessnessInability to affect outcomes
- impotenceLack of strength or power
- helplessnessLacking ability to cope
- incapacityLack of ability
insufficiency · deficiency · ineptitude · incompetence · futility · uselessness · inefficacy · inability
Process of declining quality
- degenerationProgressive loss of function
- decayGradual organic breakdown
- witheringDrying and declining
- fadingGradual loss of intensity
waning · diminishment · regression · atrophy · crumbling · erosion · weakening · failing
Ease of breaking
- brittlenessProne to snapping
- flimsinessLack of strength
- instabilityTendency toward unpredictable change
- shakinessState of quivering
unsteadiness · tenuousness · insubstantiality · delicateness · vulnerability · precariousness · rickety · wobbly
weakness
Deficiency in force
enervation · exhaustion · fatigue · lethargy · languor · weariness · listlessness · malaise · prostration · atrophy
ineffectiveness
Failure to achieve results
- powerlessnessInability to affect outcomes
- impotenceLack of strength or power
- helplessnessLacking ability to cope
incapacity · insufficiency · deficiency · ineptitude · incompetence · futility · uselessness · inefficacy · inability · limitation
deterioration
Process of declining quality
- degenerationProgressive loss of function
- decayGradual organic breakdown
- witheringDrying and declining
fading · waning · diminishment · regression · atrophy · crumbling · erosion · weakening · failing · senescence
fragility
Ease of breaking
- brittlenessProne to snapping
- flimsinessLack of strength
- instabilityTendency toward unpredictable change
shakiness · unsteadiness · tenuousness · insubstantiality · delicateness · vulnerability · precariousness · rickety · wobbly · unsoundness
- illnessdisease, sickness, illness, ailment, disorder
- fatigueexhaustion, tiredness, weariness, lethargy, chronic fatigue
- impairmentsimpairment, disability, paralysis, incapacity, blindness
- physical weaknessweakness, frailty, poor health, debility, infirmity
- weaknessweakness, frailty, debility, asthenia, debilitation
- weaknessesweakness, flaw, failing, defect, shortcoming
feeblenessstrength
Power to exert force
power · might · muscularity · brawniness · heftiness
feeblenessvigor
Active physical strength
vitality · robustness · health · healthiness · wellness
feeblenesseffectiveness
Success in producing results
potency · power · efficacy · strength · forcefulness
feeble, feebly, enfeeble, enfeeblement, enfeebled, enfeebling