Fragility
/fɹəˈd͡ʒɪlɪti/ noun
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 lack of physical strength wordnet
- 3 Weakness; feebleness. countable, uncountable
- 4 quality of being easily damaged or destroyed wordnet
- 5 Liability to error and sin; frailty. countable, obsolete, uncountable
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.