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
  • But though ruthlessly efficient at killing off some frog species, the fungus is highly vulnerable to heat: Temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius (about 85 degrees Fahrenheit) slow disease progression.
    Martin J. Kernan, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2024
  • The agency’s $48 billion budget funds medical research on cancers, vaccines and other diseases through competitive grants to researchers at institutions throughout the nation.
    Aleccia Washington, Twin Cities, 15 Nov. 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
  • If either future president presides over a divided Congress, expect epic gridlock and dysfunction in Washington.
    Erin Doherty, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Wired’s report of poor working conditions are the latest signs of dysfunction at America PAC.
    Bruce Gil, Quartz, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of dysfunction
Noun
  • Rethink your strengths and weaknesses and aim to enforce a healthier routine.
    Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Maybe the biggest weakness of the liberal international order is that the whole world feels the consequences of U.S. elections but has no say in them.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2024
Definition of weakness
Noun
  • His advanced decrepitude will be matched only by the looming threat of irrelevance in a desensitized world.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Here and throughout his work, contradictions between vitality and decrepitude, nature and artifice, beauty and the grotesque don’t resolve in neutralizing harmony, but instead thrum on with generative friction.
    Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
Definition of decrepitude
Noun
  • Neurodegenerative disorders, such as dementia, similarly can cause deterioration of this ability.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2024
  • This is a disorder in which the nerves and muscles of the stomach are paralyzed, slowing down digestion.10 Pancreatitis: This is inflammation of the pancreas, the digestive organ behind your stomach.
    Mark Gurarie, Health, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of disorder
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