faintness: the property of being without strength
weakness: the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain
welwitschia: curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide trunk like a turnip with a deep taproot and two large persistent woody straplike leaves growing from the base; living relic of a flora long disappeared; some may be 700-5000 years old