different between weakness vs heaviness

English

Alternative forms

• weakenes (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English weykenesse; equivalent to weak +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wi?k.n?s/

Noun

weakness (countable and uncountable, plural weaknesses)

1. (uncountable) The condition of being weak.

2. (countable) An inadequate quality; fault
3. (countable) A special fondness or desire.

Synonyms

• (condition of being weak): frailty, powerlessness, vincibility, vulnerability
• (fault): fault, defect, flaw, hole

Antonyms

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

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Further reading

• weakness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• weakness in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From Middle English hevinesse, from Old English hefi?nes (“heaviness”). Equivalent to heavy +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?v?n?s/

Noun

heaviness (countable and uncountable, plural heavinesses)

1. The state of being heavy; weight, weightiness, force of impact or gravity.
2. (archaic) Oppression; dejectedness, sadness; low spirits.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:

     First got with guile, and then preseru'd with dread, / And after spent with pride and lauishnesse, / Leauing behind them griefe and heauinesse.
3. (obsolete) Drowsiness.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii^[1]:

     Miranda: The strangeness of your story put / Heaviness in me.

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