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Frailty
| Frailty Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Frailty?
[n] moral weakness
[n] the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
Synonyms | Synonyms for Frailty: debility |
feebleness |
frailness |
infirmity |
vice
Related Terms | Find terms related to Frailty: abulia |
airiness |
airy texture |
amiable weakness |
attenuation |
bad habit |
besetting sin |
blemish |
breakability |
breakableness |
brittleness |
bug |
cachexia |
cachexy |
catch |
changeableness |
chronic ill health |
collapse |
cowardice |
crack |
crackability |
crackableness |
crispness |
crumbliness |
crushability |
crushableness |
daintiness |
debilitation |
debility |
decrepitude |
defect |
defection |
deficiency |
delicacy |
delicate health |
destructibility |
diaphanousness |
dilutedness |
dilution |
disintegration |
drawback |
effeminacy |
enervation |
ethereality |
exhaustion |
exiguity |
exility |
failing |
failure |
faintheartedness |
faintness |
fallibility |
fault |
faute |
fear |
feeblemindedness |
feebleness |
fineness |
fissility |
flaw |
flimsiness |
foible |
fracturableness |
fragility |
frangibility |
friability |
gauziness |
gossameriness |
gracility |
healthlessness |
hole |
human equation |
human frailty |
human weakness |
humanity |
humanness |
hypochondria |
hypochondriasis |
ill health |
imperfection |
impressionability |
inadequacy |
indecisiveness |
infirmity |
infirmity of will |
inherent vice |
insubstantiality |
invalidism |
invalidity |
irresolution |
kink |
lacerability |
laciness |
languishing |
languishment |
liability |
lightness |
little problem |
mistiness |
moral flaw |
moral weakness |
morbidity |
morbidness |
mortality |
paperiness |
peakedness |
pliability |
poor health |
problem |
rarity |
rift |
shortcoming |
sickliness |
sleaziness |
slenderness |
slightness |
slimness |
snag |
something missing |
spinelessness |
subtility |
suggestibility |
susceptibility |
taint |
tenuity |
thinness |
unhealthiness |
unsoundness |
unsubstantiality |
unwholesomeness |
vagueness |
valetudinarianism |
velleity |
vice |
vulnerability |
vulnerable place |
wasting |
wateriness |
weak link |
weak point |
weak side |
weak will |
weakliness |
weak-mindedness |
weakness |
wispiness |
womanishness
See Also | asthenia |
astheny |
bad condition |
cachexia |
cachexy |
evil |
evilness |
poor shape |
unfitness |
wasting
Frailty In Webster's Dictionary
\Frail"ty\, n.; pl. {Frailties}. [OE. frelete, freilte,
OF. frailet['e], fr. L. fragilitas. See {Frail}, a., and cf.
{Fragility}.]
1. The condition quality of being frail, physically,
mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of
resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced.
God knows our frailty, [and] pities our weakness.
--Locke.
2. A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of
infirmity.
Syn: Frailness; fragility; imperfection; failing.
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