weakness

noun

1. (uncountable)The condition of being weak.

   “Near-synonyms: debility, frailty, vulnerability; vincibility”

   “In a small number of horses, muscle weakness may progress to paralysis.”

2. (countable)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.”

   “The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.”

   “Bradford had preyed on Villa's inability to defend set pieces, corners in particular, in their first-leg win and took advantage of the weakness again as Hanson equalised to restore their two-goal aggregate lead.”

   “The compulsion to expose, renegotiate, or reinvent the strengths and weaknesses of dance tradition offers little in its final outcome to attract the average dance-goer.”

3. (countable)A special fondness or obsessing desire.

   “She is an athlete who has a weakness for chocolate.”