feebleness

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

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feebleness (countable and uncountable, plural feeblenesses)

1. The quality or state of being feeble; debility; infirmity.
   • 1975, Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital. 1848-1875, published 1995, page 289:

     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 and still less ‘sound’ views.

• “feebleness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.