386. Strength and Weakness
See also 154. FATIGUE .
- analepsis, analepsy
- Obsolete, recovery of strength after an illness. See also 168. FOOD and NUTRITION .
- armipotence
- Rare. strength in battle.
- asthenia
- Medicine. any of several conditions characterized by lack or loss of strength and energy, as neurasthenia, myasthenia, or somasthenia. —asthenie, adj.
- equipollence, equipollency
- equalness of force, validity, etc. —equipollent, adj. See also 250. LOGIC .
- hypopotencia, hypopotency
- Medicine. a condition of diminished power, especially of diminished electrical activity of the cerebral cortex.
- hyposthenia
- a condition of abnormal weakness or loss of strength. —hypos-thenic, adj.
- impotency
- 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.
- invalescence
- Obsolete, a state of good health; strength.
- invertebracy
- 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.
- lability
- the susceptibility to error or lapses of any kind, as a human failing. —labile, adj.
- milksopism
- 1. the state or quality of being a weak and ineffectual person.
- 2. behavior or attitudes typical of a milksop.
- myoatrophy
- atrophy or wasting away of the muscles.
- omnipotence
- the state or quality of being infinite in power, authority, or might. —omnipotent, adj.
- sthenia
- strength of body; vital force. —sthenic, adj.
- tonicity
- the state or quality of having good muscular tone or tension. —tonic, adj.
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