Fragility

//fɹəˈd͡ʒɪlɪti// noun

noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility. countable, uncountable

    "It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […]."

  2. 2
    lack of physical strength wordnet
  3. 3
    Weakness; feebleness. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    quality of being easily damaged or destroyed wordnet
  5. 5
    Liability to error and sin; frailty. countable, obsolete, uncountable

Synonyms

All synonyms
amiable weaknessbreakabilitybreakabilitybreakablenessbrittlenessburstenness

Example

More examples

"Liquid love is a concept created by sociologist Zygmunt Bauman concerning the fragility of human bonds in postmodernity."

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French fragilité, from Latin fragilitās. Doublet of frailty. Morphologically fragile + -ity.

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