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feebleness

feebleness noun: the quality or state of being feeble; debility; infirmity.

Noun

feebleness (countable and uncountable, plural feeblenesses)

  1. The quality or state of being feeble; debility; infirmity.
    • The traditional bourgeois ethic, puritan or secular, had ascribed [economic failure] to moral or spiritual feebleness rather than to lack of intellect, for it was evident that not much in the way of brains was needed for success in business, and conversely that mere brains did not guarantee wealth...1975, Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital. 1848-1875, published 1995, page 289

feebleness meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

feebleness in Hindi

the state of being feeble
क्षीणता kṣīṇtā

feebleness in Tamil

மெலிவு, இளைப்பு, துர்ப்பலம், அகமெய்ப்பாடு, அவலம், சாவறுதி

feebleness in Urdu

کمزوری, ضعف

feebleness in Bengali

দুর্বল হওয়ার গুণ, অবস্থা, শারীরিক দুর্বলতা, অক্ষমতা
More languagesFewer languages
feebleness in Kannada
ಅಳ್ಳೆಗೊಬ್ಬು

Forms of feebleness

pluralfeeblenesses

Origin of feebleness

From Middle English feblenesse; equivalent to feeble + -ness.

Questions about feebleness

What does feebleness mean?
Feebleness means the quality or state of being feeble; debility; infirmity.
What is feebleness in Hindi?
Feebleness in Hindi is क्षीणता (kṣīṇtā). See Feebleness meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is feebleness?
Feebleness is a noun.
What is the plural of feebleness?
The plural of feebleness is feeblenesses.

Words near feebleness in the dictionary

  1. feebled
  2. feebleminded
  3. feeblemindedly
  4. feeblemindedness
  5. feeblemindednesses
  6. feebleness
  7. feeblenesses
  8. feebler
  9. feebler-minded
  10. feebles
  11. feeblesome

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: feebleness (page history and authors); feebleness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); feebleness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); feebleness (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); feebleness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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