'Fragility' definitions:
Definition of 'fragility'
(from WordNet)
noun
Quality of being easily damaged or destroyed [syn: fragility, breakability, frangibleness, frangibility]
noun
Lack of physical strength [syn: fragility, delicacy]
Definition of 'Fragility'
From: GCIDE
- Fragility \Fra*gil"i*ty\, n. [L. fragilitas: cf. F. fragilit['e]. Cf. Frailty.]
- 1. The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Weakness; feebleness. [1913 Webster]
- An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to it [beauty]. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Liability to error and sin; frailty. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The fragility and youthful folly of Qu. Fabius. --Holland. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fragility'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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