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invalidity

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Main Entry: disability
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disadvantage, restriction

Synonyms:

affliction, ailment, defect, detriment, disqualification, drawback, impairment, inability, incapacity, incompetency, inexperience, infirmity, injury, invalidity, lack, unfitness, weakness
Notes: debility is the state of being weak in health or body; disability is the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness; inability is lack of mental ability or physical ability to do something

Antonyms:

advantage, fitness, strength
Main Entry: fallacy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: illusion, misconception

Synonyms:

aberration, ambiguity, artifice, bias, casuistry, cavil, deceit, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, deviation, elusion, equivocation, erratum, erroneousness, error, evasion, falsehood, faultiness, flaw, heresy, illogicality, inconsistency, inexactness, invalidity, misapprehension, miscalculation, misconstrual, misinterpretation, mistake, non sequitur, notion, paradox, perversion, preconception, prejudice, quibbling, quirk, solecism, sophism, sophistry, speciousness, subterfuge, untruth

Antonyms:

certainty, evidence, fact, honesty, reality, right, surety, truth
Main Entry: weakness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: defect, proneness

Synonyms:

Achilles heel, appetite*, blemish, chink in armor, debility, decrepitude, deficiency, delicacy, enervation, failing, faintness, fault, feebleness, flaw, fondness, fragility, frailty, gap, impairment, imperfection, impotence, inclination, inconstancy, indecision, infirmity, instability, invalidity, irresolution, lack, languor, lapse, liking, passion, penchant, powerlessness, predilection, proclivity, prostration, senility, shortcoming, soft spot, sore point, taste*, vice, vitiation, vulnerability

Antonyms:

strength, strong point
Main Entry: speciousness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fallacy

Synonyms:

aberration, ambiguity, artifice, bias, casuistry, cavil, deceit, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, deviation, elusion, equivocation, erratum, erroneousness, error, evasion, falsehood, faultiness, flaw, heresy, illogicality, inconsistency, inexactness, invalidity, misapprehension, miscalculation, misconstrual, misinterpretation, mistake, non sequitur, notion, paradox, perversion, preconception, prejudice, quibbling, quirk, solecism, sophism, sophistry, spuriousness, subterfuge, untruth
Main Entry: spuriousness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fallacy

Synonyms:

aberration, ambiguity, artifice, bias, casuistry, cavil, deceit, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, deviation, elusion, equivocation, erratum, erroneousness, error, evasion, falsehood, faultiness, flaw, heresy, illogicality, inconsistency, inexactness, invalidity, misapprehension, miscalculation, misconstrual, misinterpretation, mistake, non sequitur, notion, paradox, perversion, preconception, prejudice, quibbling, quirk, solecism, sophism, sophistry, speciousness, subterfuge, untruth
Main Entry: weak point
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: weakness

Synonyms:

Achilles heel, appetite*, blemish, chink in armor, debility, decrepitude, deficiency, delicacy, enervation, failing, faintness, fault, feebleness, flaw, foible, fondness, fragility, frailty, gap, impairment, imperfection, impotence, inclination, inconstancy, indecision, infirmity, instability, invalidity, irresolution, lack, languor, lapse, liking, passion, penchant, powerlessness, predilection, proclivity, prostration, senility, shortcoming, soft spot, sore point, taste*, vice, vitiation, vulnerability
Related Words
Main Entry: weakness
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
cold, faint, loose, short, adynamic, aidless, amyous, armless, asthenic, bald, broken, careless, childish, cranky, crazy, creachy, crippled, dead beat, debile, decayed, decrepit, defenseless, demoralized, diffuse, disabled, disjointed, disqualified, docile, done up, drooping, dry, dull, effeminate, effete, elumbated, emasculate, evanid, exhausted, faintish, fatherless, feeble, feminate, flaccid, flatulent, flimsy, forcible, frail, frigid, gimcrack, gingerbread, good for nothing, graveled, harmless, helpless, hypophrenic, hyposthenic, imbecile, impotent, improcreant, inadequate, inapt, incapable, incompetent, indefensible, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inefficient, inept, inexact, infirm, inoperative, irrelevant, jejune, laid low, laid on one's back, laid on the shelf, lame, languid, languishing, lax, lustless, marrowless, meable, meager, monotonous, nerveless, nervous, nugatory, null and void, on its last legs, palsied, paralytic, paralyzed, parvipotent, pithless, poor, powerless, pregnable, prosaic, prosing, prosy, puerile, pulled down, queachy, radiolucent, rambling, relaxed, rickety, rotten, rudderless, sapless, seedy, shaken, shaky, shattered, shattery, sinewless, sketchy, slack, slight, slip, soft, spent, strengthless, tame, the worse for wear, tottering, trashy, unable, unaided, unapt, unarmed, unassisted, unconducing, unconducive, unconducting to, unendowed, unfit, unfitted, unfortified, unfriended, unhinged, uninfluential, unnerved, unqualified, unstrengthened, unstrung, unsubstantial, unsupported, untenable, unvaried, vapid, vincible, washy, wasted, waterlogged, weak, weak as a baby, weak as a cat, weak as a chicken, weak as a child, weak as a rat, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water, weak as water, weak as water, weaponless, weather, withered, without a leg to stand upon, womanly, wommacky, worn
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Weakness.
Category: 2. CONNECTION BETWEEN CAUSE AND EFFECT

Synonyms:

-nouns
weakness; debility, atony, relaxation, languor, enervation; impotence; infirmity; effeminacy, feminality; fragility, flaccidity; inactivity., anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood., declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength; delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia, adynamy, cachexy, cachexia, sprain, strain., reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards., softling, weakling; infant; youth.
-verbs
be weak; drop, crumble, give way, totter, tremble, shake, halt, limp, fade, languish, decline, flag, fail, have one leg in the grave., render weak; weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, shake, deprive of strength, relax, enervate, eviscerate; unbrace, unnerve; cripple, unman (render powerless); cramp, reduce, sprain, strain, blunt the edge of; dilute, impoverish; decimate; extenuate; reduce in strength, reduce the strength of; mettre de l'eau dans son vin.
-adjectives
weak, feeble, debile; impotent; relaxed, unnerved, sapless, strengthless, powerless; weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic, asthenic; nervous., soft, effeminate, feminate, womanly., frail, fragile, shattery; flimsy, unsubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread; rickety, cranky; craichy; drooping, tottering; broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky; palsied; decrepit.
-phrases
non sum qualis eram ["I am not as I used to be" (Latin)].

Antonyms:

strength
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