weakness
/ˈwik.nɪs/ noun B1- The condition of being weak. · Near-synonyms: debility, frailty, vulnerability; vincibility· In a small number of horses, muscle weakness may progress to paralysis.
- 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.
- A special fondness or obsessing desire. · She is an athlete who has a weakness for chocolate.
Plural weaknesses
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On a quiet countryside, where all gossip is welcome, this weakness of the lady of the Manor House did not pass without remark, and it bulked larger upon people’s memory when the events arose which gave it a very special significance.
It was one of my friend’s most obvious weaknesses that he was impatient with less alert intelligences than his own.
Anyone else would have hastened to receive him; but Villefort was a man of ability, and he knew this would be a sign of weakness.
“Well now, I dunno but what I would,” said Matthew, who never ate russets but knew Anne’s weakness for them.
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