FRAILTIES Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

frailties

noun

plural of frailty

as in weaknesses

a defect in character selfishness is a common human frailty

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Recent Examples of frailties Both larger-than-life characters have their frailties. — Bob Strauss, Houston Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2026 Both larger-than-life characters have their frailties. — Bob Strauss, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2026 Mundo and Diana’s world is more stark, its colors stripped away to show the toll of life’s frailties on the couple. — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 25 May 2026 Colombia could test Portugal’s defensive frailties with a combination of skill and pace. — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 5 June 2026 Okrent highlights the emotional frailties that coexisted with the brilliance and generosity. — Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026 Jackson’s other frailties were evident long before that diagnosis. — John Blake, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026 Those traits historically idolized as feminine frailties (or diagnosed as feminine neuroses) are here reenvisioned as sources of extraordinary talent. — Caroline Lillian Schopp, Artforum, 13 May 2026 Just as her characters tussle with the frailties installed during their upbringings, Strout, the daughter of a schoolteacher mother and parasitologist father who was also a congregationalist deacon, has reckoned with her roots. — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 28 Apr. 2026

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Noun

The study, whose goal is to identify weaknesses in AI systems to help build stronger defenses, focuses on AI systems that use both images and text.

— Laurie Mermet, Sun Sentinel, 6 July 2026
Acceptance of the issues, a willingness to work through weaknesses and negotiate the situations that come up.

— Chris Evans, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026

Definition of weaknesses

Noun

The actor, whose political beliefs don’t cleanly map onto the modern divisions of the two-party system, has both a reverence for America as a set of ideals and an awareness of the faults within its history that creates interesting textual friction.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 3 July 2026
But when both faults are at the same or similar elevated levels of stress, this is a problem.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 June 2026

Definition of faults

Noun

Youssef added that one of the biggest shortcomings in many squatter investigations is the lack of follow-up fact gathering.

— Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026
Nilson Angulo’s strike was excellent and Gonzalo Plata’s winner, which will live long in the Ecuadorian memory, ensured Germany’s shortcomings were punished.

— Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 5 July 2026

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