feebleness
noun
feebleness is a noun meaning “The quality or state of being feeble; debility; infirmity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-E-B-L-E-N-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of feebleness is feeblenesses.
What does feebleness mean?
noun
- 1
The quality or state of being feeble; debility; infirmity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce feebleness?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-feebleness.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of feebleness
- feeblenesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is feebleness?
Feebleness appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does feebleness come from?
From Middle English feblenesse; equivalent to feeble + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).