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fragility

noun

1 fragility

Quality of being easily damaged or destroyed.

synonyms: breakability, frangibility, frangibleness.

Roget 328: brittleness etc. adj.; fragility, friability, frangibility, fissibility; house of cards, house of glass.   

Dutch: broosheid, breekbaarheid, fragiliteit, kwetsbaarheid
Polish: łamliwość

2 fragility

Lack of physical strength.

synonym: delicacy.

Roget 160: weakness etc. adj.; debility, atony, relaxation, languor, enervation; impotence etc. 158; infirmity; effeminacy, feminality; ... show more

Polish: kruchość, wątłość


Moby thesaurus: amiable weakness, breakability, breakableness, brittleness, cachexia, cachexy, changeableness, chronic ill health, collapse, crackability, crackableness, crispness, crumbliness, crushability, crushableness, daintiness, debilitation, debility, decrepitude, delicacy ... show more.

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