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Strength and Weakness |
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Strength and Weakness See also fatigue. Obsolete, recovery of strength after an illness. See also food and nutrition. Rare. strength in battle. Medicine. any of several conditions characterized by lack or loss of strength and energy, as neurasthenia, myasthenia, or somasthenia. — asthenie, adj. equalness of force, validity, etc. — equipollent, adj. See also logic. Medicine. a condition of diminished power, especially of diminished electrical activity of the cerebral cortex. a condition of abnormal weakness or loss of strength. — hypos-thenic, adj. 1. a condition of reduced or absent power; weakness. 2. a complete failure of sexual power, especially in the male. Also called impotence, impotentness. — impotent, adj. Obsolete, a state of good health; strength. the state or quality of being invertebrate or without a backbone, as certain organisms, animals, etc.; hence, spinelessness; exhibiting a lack of strength of character. — invertebrate, adj. the susceptibility to error or lapses of any kind, as a human failing. — labile, adj. 1. the state or quality of being a weak and ineffectual person. 2. behavior or attitudes typical of a milksop. atrophy or wasting away of the muscles. the state or quality of being infinite in power, authority, or might. — omnipotent, adj. strength of body; vital force. — sthenic, adj. the state or quality of having good muscular tone or tension. — tonic, adj. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Wealth and poverty, fame and obscurity, power and subordination, strength and weakness, health and disease, culture and ignorance, work and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are only greater or lesser degrees of freedom. The union of gentleness and pride, strength and weakness in Ginevra were, to him, irresistible attractions, and he was utterly subjugated by her. Meantime, as life wears on, it proves a game of permutation and combination of all possible positions of the parties, to employ all the resources of each and acquaint each with the strength and weakness of the other. |
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