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Weakness vs Decrepitude - What's the difference?

weakness | decrepitude | Synonyms |

As nouns the difference between weakness and decrepitude

is that weakness is the condition of being weak while decrepitude is the state of being decrepit or worn out from age or long use.

weakness

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The condition of being weak.
  • (countable) An inadequate quality; fault
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=20 citation , passage=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.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2013, date=January 22, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
    • , title= Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4) , passage=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.}}
  • (countable) A special fondness or desire.

    • Synonyms

    * (condition of being weak) vulnerability, vincibility, powerlessness * (fault) fault, defect

    Antonyms

    * (condition of being weak) strength, durability, invincibility, powerfulness * (fault) strength, forte

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    decrepitude

    English

    Noun

  • the state of being decrepit or worn out from age or long use
  • * 1781, Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets
    • There prevailed in his time an opinion, that the world was in its decay, and that we have had the misfortune to be produced in the decrepitude of nature.
  • * 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
    • This was the probable destination of his sister Kate. His uncle had deceived him, and might he not consign her to some miserable place where her youth and beauty would prove a far greater curse than ugliness and decrepitude ?