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Meaning of FEEBLENESS

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  the quality of lacking intensity or substance; "a shrill yet sweet tenuity of voice"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  2. [n]  the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
 
 Synonyms: debility, frailness, frailty, infirmity, tenuity
 
 See Also: asthenia, astheny, bad condition, cachexia, cachexy, poor shape, unfitness, wasting, weakness

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Fee"ble*ness\, n.
The quality or condition of being feeble; debility;
infirmity.
      That shakes for age and feebleness.      --Shak.
 

 

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