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Weakness that apologizes for itself before you even notice it's there.

means The state of being weak or lacking strength, vigor, or force — whether in a body, an argument, or an excuse.

from From the adjective 'feeble,' which English borrowed in the medieval period from Old French 'feble' or 'foible' (weak), itself descended from Latin 'flebilis,' meaning lamentable or worthy of weeping — rooted in 'flere,' to weep. So buried in 'feebleness' is an ancient image of something so weak it makes you cry. The suffix '-ness' simply turns the quality into a noun, the state of being that way.

origin
from latin flebilis, meaning lamentable or worth weeping over
not fragility
fragility breaks once, feebleness just quietly fails to begin
body or will
describes muscles or resolve equally, both give out the same way
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