brittleness
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brittleness
noun brittlenesses
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The state of being brittle (in various senses).
[David] Riesman did his best, in prefaces to two subsequent editions of the book (at great length in 1961, and, with some brittleness about having to do it once more, in 1969), to correct this reading—to insist that he never meant to suggest that Americans now were any more conformist than they ever
Similar: brittility · Opposite: toughness, resilience, ductility, pliability, bendability
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noun state of being brittle
| हिन्दी | भंगुरता bhaṅgurtā |
|---|---|
| Русский | уязвимость ujazvimostʹ |
noun material property
| Español | fragilidad |
|---|---|
| हिन्दी | भंगुरता bhaṅgurtā |
| Français | fragilité |
| Deutsch | Brüchigkeit, Sprödigkeit, Versprödung, Zerbrechlichkeit |
| Русский | хрупкость xrupkostʹ, ломкость lomkostʹ |
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title = {brittleness},
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