Meaning of FRAGILITY
| Pronunciation: | | fru'jilitee
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- [n] lack of physical strength
- [n] quality of being easily damaged or destroyed
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| | Synonyms: | | breakability, delicacy |
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| | See Also: | | vulnerability, weakness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fra*gil"i*ty\, n. [L. fragilitas: cf. F.
fragilit['e]. Cf. {Frailty}.]
1. The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness;
frangibility. --Bacon.
2. Weakness; feebleness.
An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is
almost essential to it [beauty]. --Burke.
3. Liability to error and sin; frailty. [Obs.]
The fragility and youthful folly of Qu. Fabius.
--Holland.
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| | Related Terms: | | amiable weakness, breakability, breakableness, brittleness, cachexia, cachexy, changeableness, chronic ill health, collapse, crackability, crackableness, crispness, crumbliness, crushability, crushableness, daintiness, debilitation, debility, decrepitude, delicacy, delicate health, destructibility, disintegration, effeminacy, enervation, exhaustion, feebleness, fissility, flimsiness, fracturableness, frailty, frangibility, friability, healthlessness, human frailty, hypochondria, hypochondriasis, ill health, indecisiveness, infirmity, infirmity of will, inherent vice, invalidism, invalidity, irresolution, lacerability, languishing, languishment, lightness, moral weakness, morbidity, morbidness, peakedness, poor health, sickliness, sleaziness, slightness, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unsubstantiality, unwholesomeness, valetudinarianism, velleity, vulnerability, wasting, weakliness, wispiness, womanishness |
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