noun
- plural of feebleness; the quality or state of being weak in body, mind, or character
- instances or examples of being ineffectual, unconvincing, or lacking force
Usage: countable and uncountable uses; typically used in plural to refer to multiple instances or types of weakness
Usage: often used to describe flaws in arguments, performances, or reasoning
Examples
- The patient's feeblenesses became more apparent as the illness progressed.
- Despite his feeblenesses in mathematics, he excelled in literature.
- The argument had several feeblenesses that critics quickly identified.
- Age brought with it various physical feeblenesses.
- She acknowledged the feeblenesses in her first draft and revised thoroughly.
- The team's feeblenesses on defense cost them the game.