feebleness

/ˈfibəlnəs/

Other forms: feeblenesses

Feebleness is a state of being very weak. An old man's feebleness may make it difficult for him to care for his rowdy Great Dane.

In addition to physical feebleness, which people have when they're frail, fragile, or sickly, there's also a feebleness of will or character. The feebleness of your excuse for being late—because you couldn't find your favorite socks—won't impress your teacher. And the feebleness of laughing with a bully instead of defending the person being bullied may be the weakest of all.

Definitions of feebleness

1. noun

   the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
   synonyms: debility, frailness, frailty, infirmity, valetudinarianism

   types:

   asthenia, astheny

   an abnormal loss of strength

   cachexia, cachexy, wasting

   any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease

   type of:

   softness, unfitness

   poor physical condition; being out of shape or out of condition (as from a life of ease and luxury)
2. noun

   the quality of lacking intensity or substance
   synonyms: tenuity

   type of:

   weakness

   the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain