About The Word Fragility
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Fragility
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What's The Definition Of Fragility?
[n] lack of physical strength
[n] quality of being easily damaged or destroyed Synonyms | Synonyms for Fragility: breakability | delicacy Related Terms | Find terms related to Fragility: 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 See Also | vulnerability | weakness Fragility In Webster's Dictionary \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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