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weakness

noun
/ˈwiːk.nɪs/UK/ˈwik.nɪs/US/ˈwiːk.nɪs/

Etymology

From Middle English wayknesse, weykenesse, replacing earlier Middle English wocnesse, wakenes, wacnesse (“weakness”), from Old English wācnes (“weakness”). Equivalent to weak + -ness.

  1. inherited from wayknesse

Definitions

  1. The condition of being weak.

    • Near-synonyms: debility, frailty, vulnerability; vincibility
    • In a small number of horses, muscle weakness may progress to paralysis.

  2. An inadequate quality

    An inadequate quality; fault.

    • His inability to speak in front of an audience was his weakness.
    • The only weakness in her plan was its reliance on the electricity being up and running.
    • The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.

  3. A special fondness or obsessing desire.

    • She is an athlete who has a weakness for chocolate.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at weakness. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at weakness. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at weakness

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA