Feebleness

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The quality or condition of being feeble, in any sense of that word; weakness.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The quality or state of being feeble; debility; infirmity.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the quality of lacking intensity or substance
  • noun. the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
  • Word Usage
    "Emerson himself said, "I think that my very feebleness is the cause of my long life, for when the hard blow of disease struck my vigorous brother Charles he had not power to receive it, and fell, while I feebly bowed like the willow to the gust, and survived.""
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