What is another word for weakness?
866 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ wˈiːknəs], [ wˈiːknəs], [ w_ˈiː_k_n_ə_s]Table of Contents
Similar words for weakness:- other relevant words (adjective)
- Achilles' heel (noun)
- Achilles heel (noun)
- adoration (noun)
- affinity (noun)
- appetite (noun)
- ardor (noun)
- attachment (noun)
- attenuation (noun)
- attribute (noun)
- chink in one's armor (noun)
- choice (noun)
- condition (noun)
- decrepitude (noun)
- default (noun)
- defect (noun)
- defect, proneness (noun)
- deficiency (noun)
- delicacy (noun)
- delinquency (noun)
- dependence/dependency (noun)
- difficulty, trouble (noun)
- disability (noun)
- disadvantage(s) (noun)
- dotage (noun)
- enthusiasm (noun)
- failing (noun)
- fatigue (noun)
- fault (noun)
- feebleness (noun)
- feet of clay (noun)
- fervor (noun)
- field (noun)
- flaw (noun)
- foolishness (noun)
- habit (noun)
- hankering (noun)
- helplessness (noun)
- hobby (noun)
- imbecility (noun)
- imperfection (noun)
- impotence (noun)
- impuissance (noun)
- inability (noun)
- inadequacy (noun)
- incapability (noun)
- inclination (noun)
- ineffectiveness (noun)
- ineffectuality (noun)
- insecureness (noun)
- instability (noun)
- insubstantiality (noun)
- irresolution (noun)
- languor (noun)
- leaning (noun)
- lethargy (noun)
- liking (noun)
- love (noun)
- lust (noun)
- malaise (noun)
- misconduct (noun)
- need (noun)
- old age (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- passion (noun)
- precariousness (noun)
- predisposition (noun)
- preference (noun)
- proclivity (noun)
- shortage (noun)
- soft spot (noun)
- specialty (noun)
- stupidity (noun)
- tastelessness (noun)
- tenderness (noun)
- undoing (noun)
- unsoundness (noun)
- unstableness (noun)
- unsteadiness (noun)
- unsureness (noun)
- weakness (noun)
- weak spot (noun)
- weariness (noun)
- other synonyms
- culpability
- effeminacy
- pusillanimity
Synonyms for Weakness:
adj.
•Other relevant words: (adjective)n.
•Achilles' heel (noun) •Achilles heel (noun)-
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- gap,
- indecision,
- the vapors,
- disturbance,
- vice,
- virtue,
- lapse,
- good.
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- like.
- chink in ones armor,
- under-bellies,
- chink-armor,
- under-belly,
- under bellies,
- under belly,
- vulnerable places,
- chink in one armor,
- chink ones armor,
- weak sides,
- chink one armor,
- chink armor,
- chink one's armor.
- over looking,
- in sufficiency,
- dis regard,
- over sights,
- dis-regard,
- overlookings,
- over sight,
- over-sight,
- over-looking,
- de fault,
- de faults,
- non payments,
- in sufficiencies,
- in-sufficiencies,
- dis-regards,
- de-faults,
- in-sufficiency,
- non payment,
- dis regards,
- over-sights,
- de-fault,
- non-payments.
- dis coloration,
- rough spots,
- dis-coloration,
- mis take,
- in-jury,
- un soundnesses,
- dis colorations,
- marrings,
- mis takes,
- dis-colorations,
- mis-take,
- mis-takes,
- in juries,
- in jury.
- prostration,
- senility,
- faintness,
- blemish,
- frailty,
- achilles heel,
- lack,
- inconstancy,
- languor,
- impotence,
- fragility,
- sore point,
- decrepitude,
- vitiation,
- vulnerability,
- irresolution,
- impairment,
- debility.
- diaphaneities,
- exquisitenesses,
- trans-lucency,
- trans-lucencies,
- trans lucency,
- trans lucencies,
- gossamerinesses,
- slendernesses,
- etherealnesses,
- airinesses.
- mis behaviors,
- mis-behavior,
- mis-behaviors,
- non-feasances,
- mis deeds,
- mis behavior,
- non feasances,
- mis-deeds,
- non observances,
- mis demeanor,
- nonobservances,
- mis-deed,
- mis deed,
- mis demeanors,
- non observance,
- mis-demeanors,
- mis-demeanor,
- non feasance,
- non-observances.
- de pendency,
- de-pendency,
- subserviences,
- sub-ordination,
- subjections,
- sub-ordinations,
- sub ordination,
- sub ordinations,
- de-pendencies,
- de pendencies.
- in-capacity,
- in-validity,
- in capacities,
- un-fitness,
- in experience,
- dis-qualifications,
- un-fitnesses,
- un fitnesses,
- dis qualifications,
- in-validities,
- dis-qualification,
- un fitness,
- in-experiences,
- dis qualification,
- in-experience,
- in-capacities,
- in capacity,
- in validities,
- in experiences,
- in validity.
- de privations,
- de-privation,
- dis-commodities,
- dis commodities,
- in-utility,
- dis advantages,
- in-conveniences,
- in utilities,
- de-privations,
- blockings,
- in convenience,
- dis-advantages,
- adverse circumstance,
- fly in ointment,
- in conveniences,
- dis commodity,
- in-convenience,
- dis-advantage,
- in-utilities,
- de privation,
- in utility,
- dis-commodity,
- fly ointment,
- fly the ointment,
- dis advantage.
- loss innocence,
- mis cues,
- slip ups,
- mis-cue,
- in discretions,
- in accuracy,
- mis-cues,
- mis-conducts,
- evil doings,
- mis cue,
- in accuracies,
- mis-conduct,
- mis conducts,
- answerabilities,
- mis conduct,
- in-discretions,
- in discretion,
- in-accuracy,
- in-accuracies,
- in-discretion.
- absurdness,
- fool trick,
- imbecility,
- witlessness,
- unwiseness,
- horse feathers,
- foolery,
- Fooleries,
- carryings-on,
- irresponsibility,
- carrying-on,
- dumb trick,
- senselessness,
- silliness.
- obsession,
- Habits,
- make-ups,
- wonts,
- make-up,
- impulsions,
- fixed attitude,
- hangup,
- Assuetude,
- impulsion.
- pet topics,
- dis-tractions,
- re-laxations,
- favorite occupations,
- dis tractions,
- dis-traction,
- schticks,
- leisure pursuits,
- re-laxation,
- labor love,
- re laxation,
- dis traction,
- re laxations.
- in capacitation,
- in-efficiency,
- in efficiency,
- in-aptitude,
- in-capacitation,
- in capabilities,
- in aptitude,
- incapacitations,
- in-efficiencies,
- ineptnesses,
- in capacitations,
- in efficiencies,
- inaptitudes,
- in-capacitations,
- in aptitudes,
- in-aptitudes.
- in adequacy,
- in-adequacy,
- in-aptnesses,
- defectivenesses,
- in aptness,
- inaptnesses,
- in adequacies,
- in adequateness,
- un-suitableness,
- in-adequateness,
- inadequatenesses,
- in-aptness,
- un suitableness,
- un suitablenesses,
- in adequatenesses,
- in-adequatenesses,
- in-adequacies,
- in aptnesses,
- faultinesses,
- un-suitablenesses,
- skimpinesses.
- disequilibrium,
- fickleness,
- shakiness,
- insecureness,
- variabilities,
- impermanence,
- mutabilities,
- unsureness,
- fitfulness,
- changeability,
- variability,
- precariousness,
- capriciousness,
- waverings,
- Uncertainties,
- insecurity,
- in security,
- mutability,
- unpredictabilities,
- changeableness,
- Unfixedness,
- transience,
- unpredictability,
- unreliability,
- fluidity.
- flus,
- in-disposition,
- in-dispositions,
- unhealths,
- in disposition,
- diseasednesses,
- un-healths,
- in-substantiality,
- un-wellnesses,
- in dispositions,
- ailings,
- in-substantialities,
- ill healths,
- in substantialities,
- un-wellness,
- un wellness,
- un healths,
- un-health,
- unwellnesses.
- volatility,
- wateriness,
- inconsistency,
- ambivalence,
- insipidity,
- tentativeness,
- unwillingness,
- spinelessness,
- vacillation,
- shyness,
- indecisiveness,
- halfheartedness,
- impulsiveness,
- yellowness,
- double-mindedness,
- uncertainty,
- shiftiness,
- hesitance.
- dis tress,
- dis-tresses,
- un-eases,
- un easiness,
- dis comforts,
- un-easinesses,
- dis-comfort,
- dis tresses,
- un-ease,
- un ease,
- dis comfort,
- dis-tress,
- un eases,
- un-easiness,
- dis-comforts.
- underbellies,
- favoritism,
- salacity,
- devoir,
- fly in the ointment,
- field,
- habit,
- attachment,
- year,
- proclivity,
- tendency,
- default,
- Divertissement,
- lust,
- inutilities,
- foible,
- wholeheartedness,
- drawback,
- invalidities,
- Unhealth,
- debilitation,
- committals,
- tenuity,
- ought,
- Non-feasance,
- Insufficience,
- unsoundness,
- enervation,
- soft underbelly,
- knot,
- feeble-mindedness,
- oomph,
- flaw,
- shortcoming,
- schtick,
- favorite occupation,
- instability,
- failing,
- vulnerable place,
- ill health,
- adoration,
- frailness,
- defalcation,
- inefficacy,
- speciality,
- Asininity,
- shallowness,
- Ardency,
- taste,
- chink in armor,
- dotage,
- subtlety,
- liking,
- ignorance,
- salaciousness,
- Pash,
- speck,
- slip up,
- in actions,
- inferiority,
- incompetency,
- nonobservance,
- Diseasedness,
- predisposition,
- fire in belly,
- Amore,
- preference,
- defalcations,
- slenderness,
- nitwittedness,
- inability,
- scantiness,
- Desiderata,
- imperfection,
- loss of innocence,
- puniness,
- possessiveness,
- passion,
- typo,
- demesne,
- attenuation,
- fondness,
- hobby,
- fatigue,
- answerability,
- wobbliness,
- inadequateness,
- defectiveness,
- demesnes,
- velleity,
- limits,
- rough spot,
- pashes,
- neglect,
- need,
- inability to hack it,
- thick-headedness,
- leaning,
- discommodities,
- inclination,
- desideratum,
- weakliness,
- fervor,
- adverse circumstances,
- inaptness,
- errors,
- in action,
- fervency,
- urge,
- Incapacitation,
- character flaw,
- committal,
- Non-payment,
- Specialities,
- brainlessness,
- inaptitude,
- slip-ups,
- devoirs,
- terrain,
- fragileness,
- malaise,
- unsuitableness,
- doltishness,
- Etherealness,
- weak side,
- druthers,
- Liableness,
- enfeeblement,
- minuses,
- feeblemindedness,
- fault,
- deficiency,
- tenderness,
- predilection,
- simpatico,
- chink in the armor,
- underbelly,
- Discommodity,
- divertissements,
- lovingness,
- weak link,
- undoing,
- inutility,
- ineptness,
- powerlessness,
- over turn,
- skimpiness,
- inefficiencies,
- defect,
- evil doing,
- inadequacy,
- delicacy,
- insubstantiality,
- unwellness,
- puerility,
- stupidness,
- tender spot,
- damaging weakness,
- Puerilities,
- soft spot,
- Diaphaneity,
- affinity,
- subjection,
- chink in one's armor,
- battiness,
- slip-up,
- needs,
- scar,
- idiocies,
- foolishness,
- helplessness,
- fatuousness,
- leisure pursuit,
- invalidity,
- same wavelength,
- disability,
- salacities,
- munchies,
- leanings,
- zealousness,
- shortage,
- idolization,
- feebleness,
- condition,
- sideline,
- stupidity,
- feet of clay,
- tenuities,
- miss,
- affection,
- Non-observance,
- injudiciousness,
- pet topic,
- specialty,
- oughts,
- weak spot,
- airiness,
- Leisure Activity,
- aphrodisia,
- typos,
- weak-mindedness,
- say so,
- subservience,
- obtuseness,
- thickheadedness,
- partiality,
- champaign,
- thing for,
- exquisiteness,
- minus,
- hankering,
- aphrodisias,
- Leisure Activities,
- the urge,
- faultiness,
- choice,
- penchant,
- gossameriness,
- Delicateness,
- good vibrations,
- unstableness.
- quicks,
- raw nerves,
- where it hurts,
- raw nerve,
- RAWS,
- the quick,
- sore spot,
- Nerve Endings,
- where one lives,
- nerve ending,
- exposed nerve,
- in the gut.
- majors,
- claim to fame,
- field of concentration,
- distinguishing feature,
- specials,
- object of study,
- object of attention,
- special project,
- forte.
- fatuousnesses,
- weak mindedness,
- feeble mindedness,
- nitwittednesses,
- feeble mindednesses,
- weakmindedness,
- non sense,
- brainlessnesses,
- battinesses,
- injudiciousnesses,
- in judiciousnesses,
- non-sense,
- weakmindednesses,
- asininities,
- non senses,
- in-judiciousness,
- shallownesses,
- thick headedness,
- thick headednesses,
- feeble-mindednesses,
- in judiciousness,
- weak-mindednesses,
- obtusenesses,
- thick-headednesses,
- doltishnesses,
- feeblemindednesses,
- stupidnesses,
- in-judiciousnesses,
- weak mindednesses,
- thickheadednesses.
- blandness,
- mildness,
- staleness,
- plainness,
- flatness,
- unsavoriness,
- tastelessness,
- vapidity,
- banality.
- mis-adventure,
- de-stroyer,
- re versal,
- sub versions,
- un-doings,
- bad omen,
- de-stroyers,
- over-turn,
- mis adventure,
- over turns,
- sub-version,
- re-versal,
- mis adventures,
- un doing,
- over throws,
- mis-calculation,
- de-feat,
- un-doing,
- re verse,
- over-throw,
- bad omens,
- dis-grace,
- dis grace,
- mis calculation,
- sub version,
- over throw,
- dis graces,
- un doings,
- de stroyer,
- over-throws,
- sub-versions,
- de-feats,
- de feat,
- re-verse,
- dis-graces,
- de stroyers,
- mis chances,
- mis steps,
- mis chance,
- de feats,
- mis-adventures,
- mis-calculations.
Other synonyms:
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- damage,
- love,
- underside,
- self-indulgent,
- Achilles' Heel,
- unsubstantiality,
- dissipated,
- decadence,
- sybaritic,
- fun-loving,
- abnormality,
- illness,
- self-indulgence,
- weak point,
- epicurean.
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- force,
- indulgence,
- dissipation,
- limitation.
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- appetite.
Paraphrases for Weakness:
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Equivalence
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Noun, singular or mass
shortcoming, deficiency, flaw, inadequacy, helplessness, debility, disadvantage, frailty, impotence, defect, drawback, failing.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Forward Entailment
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Proper noun, singular
weak.
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Noun, singular or mass
powerlessness, failure.
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Proper noun, singular
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Reverse Entailment
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Noun, singular or mass
fragility, insufficiency, fatigue.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
lack, inability, impairment, shortage, impossibility, precariousness, tiredness, weariness, scarcity, gap, paucity, limitation, slackening, downturn, lacuna, Lacunae, absence, deterioration, handicap, downside.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Other Related
Antonyms for Weakness:
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n.
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attribute
strength.
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defect, proneness
robustness, plenty, dislike, success, advantage, hate, perfection, soundness, indifference, ability, disinclination, loathing, hatred, antipathy, strong point, health, enough.
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Other antonyms:
fortitude, hardness, discipline, impenetrability, Brawniness, Muscularity, virtuousness, resoluteness, merit, wellness, invincibility, immunity, morality, rightness, mettle, ruggedness, integrity, righteousness, excellence, nerve, hardiness, huskiness, uprightness, probity, virility, lustiness, chutzpah, invulnerability, rectitude, backbone, heftiness, indomitability, goodness, toughness.
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attribute
Hypernym for Weakness:
n.
Hyponym for Weakness:
n.
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attribute
property.
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feeling
predilection, preference, penchant, taste.
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state
ill luck, misfortune, bad luck, tough luck.
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attribute