fragility
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fragility
- /fɹəˈd͡ʒɪlɪti/
Rhymes with -ɪlɪti
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French fragilité, from Latin fragilitās. Doublet of frailty. Morphologically fragile + -ity.
noun fragilities
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The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.
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; […].
Similar: fragileness
- Weakness; feebleness.
- Liability to error and sin; frailty.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: breakability, delicacy, vulnerability, frailty, vulnerable, weakness, volatility, instability, precariousness, susceptibility, uncertainty, insecurity, powerlessness, sensitivity, inability, fragileness
Translations
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noun condition or quality of being fragile
| Español | fragilidad |
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| हिन्दी | भंगुरता bhaṅgurtā |
| Português | fragilidade |
| Français | fragilité |
| Deutsch | Zerbrechlichkeit |
| Italiano | fragilità |
| Русский | хрупкость xrupkostʹ, недолговечность nedolgovečnostʹ |
noun weakness — see also weakness
| Русский | сла́бость slábostʹ |
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