fragility

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: fra=gil=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

fragility, n. [L. fragilitas: cf. F. fragilité. Cf. Frailty.].

•  The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]
•  Weakness; feebleness.  [1913 Webster]

  "An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to it [beauty]."  [1913 Webster]
•  Liability to error and sin; frailty.  [1913 Webster]

  "The fragility and youthful folly of Qu. Fabius."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

fragility

Weakness

N weakness, debility, atony, relaxation, languor, enervation, impotence, infirmity, effeminacy, feminality, fragility, flaccidity, inactivity, anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood, declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength, delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia, adynamy, cachexy, cachexia, sprain, strain, reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards, softling, weakling, infant, youth, weak, feeble, debile, impotent, relaxed, unnerved sapless, strengthless, powerless, weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic, asthenic, nervous, soft, effeminate, feminate, womanly, frail, fragile, shattery, flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread, rickety, creaky, creaking, cranky, craichy, drooping, tottering, broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky, palsied, decrepit, languid, poor, infirm, faint, faintish, sickly, dull, slack, evanid, spent, short-winded, effete, weather-beaten, decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear, unstrengthened, unsupported, unaided, unassisted, aidless, defenseless, cantilevered (support), on its last legs, weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat, weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water, colorless, non sum qualis eram.

Brittleness

N brittleness, fragility, friability, frangibility, fissibility, house of cards, house of glass, brittle, brash, breakable, weak, frangible, fragile, frail, gimcrack, shivery, fissile, splitting, lacerable, splintery, crisp, crimp, short, brittle as glass.