Disease
Disease noun - An abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning.
Usage example: they caught a rare disease while they were traveling in Africa and were sick for weeks
Weakness and disease are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Weakness" instead a noun "Disease".
Nearby Word: diseased
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How words are described
| known | known disease | known weakness |
| physical | physical disease | physical weakness |
| particular | particular disease | particular weakness |
| similar | similar disease | similar weakness |
| Other adjectives: common, specific, alien, single, actual, real, severe, serious, bad, new, mental, deadly, fatal, different, crippling, debilitating. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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The suits got more and more elaborate as the disease took its toll, to help compensate for his weakness, but he ended up dying of the disease anyway.
Source: '90s Anti-Hero -
No other Metabaron except the first who was dying from an incurable disease, has ever shown that level of 'weakness'.
Source: Imperiled in Pregnancy -
No Transhumanism Allowed: The film starts out with a transhuman utopia of immortal, disease-proof vampires, whose only real weakness is a dependence on increasingly scarce human blood.
Source: Film / Daybreakers
Cite this Source
Weakness and Disease. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/disease/weakness
Disease & Weakness. N.p., 2016. Web. 29 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/disease/weakness>.
Weakness or Disease. 2016. Accessed July 29, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/disease/weakness.
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