frailty

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: frail=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

frailty, n. [OE. frelete, freilte, OF. fraileté, fr. L. fragilitas. See Frail, a., and cf. Fragility.].

•  The condition or quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced.  [1913 Webster]

  "God knows our frailty, [and] pities our weakness."  [1913 Webster]
•  A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.

Syn. -- Frailness; fragility; imperfection; failing.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

frailty, n. (pl. -ies)
1 the condition of being frail.
2 liability to err or yield to temptation.
3 a fault, weakness, or foible.

Etymology

ME f. OF frailet{eacute} f. L fragilitas -tatis (as FRAGILE)

THESAURUS

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, weak-mindedness, weakliness, weakness, wispiness, womanishness

ROGET THESAURUS

frailty

Vice

N vice, evil-doing, evil courses, wrongdoing, wickedness, viciousness, iniquity, peccability, demerit, sin, Adam, old Adam, offending Adam, immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals, enphagy, dophagy, exophagy, want of principle, want of ballast, obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution, hardness of heart, brutality, corruption, knavery, profligacy, flagrancy, atrocity, cannibalism, lesbianism, Sadism, infirmity, weakness, weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection, error, weak side, foible, failing, failure, crying sin, besetting sin, defect, deficiency, cloven foot, lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den, gusto picaresco, fault, crime, criminality, sinner, brothel, gambling house, joint, opium den, shooting gallery, crack house, vicious, sinful, sinning, wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal, naughty, incorrect, unduteous, undutiful, unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous, unseemly, improper, dissolute, profligate, scampish, unworthy, worthless, desertless, disgraceful, recreant, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, discreditable, disreputable, Sadistic, base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous, flagrant, flagitious, atrocious, incarnate, accursed, Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish, miscreated, misbegotten, demoralized, corrupt, depraved, evil-minded, evil-disposed, ill-conditioned, malevolent, heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless, abandoned, lost to virtue, unconscionable, sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity, incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for, culpable, reprehensible, unjustifiable, indefensible, inexcusable, inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible, weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect, indiscrete, demoralizing, degrading, wrong, sinfully, without excuse, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, alitur vitium vivitque tegendo, genus est mortis male vivere, mala mens malus animus, nemo repente fuit turpissimus, the trail of the serpent is over them all, to sanction vice and hunt decorum down.