frailty
noun
1 frailty
The state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age).
synonyms: debility, feebleness, frailness, infirmity, valetudinarianism.
Roget 945:
vice;
evil-doing,
evil courses;
wrongdoing;
wickedness,
viciousness
etc.
adj.;
iniquity,
peccability†,
demerit;
sin,
Adam†;
old Adam†,
offending Adam†.
immorality,
impropriety,
indecorum,
scandal,
laxity,
looseness of morals;
enphagy†,
dophagy†,
exophagy†;
want of principle,
want of ballast;
obliquity,
backsliding,
infamy,
demoralization,
pravity†,
depravity,
pollution;
hardness of heart;
brutality
etc.
(malevolence)
907;
corruption
etc.
(debasement)
659;
knavery
etc.
(improbity)
940†;
profligacy;
flagrancy,
atrocity;
cannibalism;
lesbianism,
Sadism.
infirmity;
weakness
etc.
adj.;
weakness of the flesh,
frailty,
imperfection;
error;
weak side;
foible;
failing,
failure;
crying sin,
besetting sin;
defect,
deficiency;
cloven foot.
lowest dregs of vice,
sink of iniquity,
Alsatian den†;
gusto picaresco [It].
fault,
crime;
criminality
etc.
(guilt)
947.
sinner
etc.
949.
[Resorts]
brothel
etc.
961;
gambling house
etc.
621;
joint [Slang],
opium den,
shooting gallery,
crack house.
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Dutch: asthenie, slapte, zwakte
Polish: osłabienie, mizerność, anemiczność, słabość, niemoc
2 frailty
Moral weakness.
synonym: vice.
Moby thesaurus: abulia, airiness, airy texture, amiable weakness, attenuation, bad habit, besetting sin, blemish, breakability, breakableness, brittleness, bug, cachexia, cachexy, catch, changeableness, chronic ill health, collapse, cowardice, crack, crackability, crackableness, crispness, crumbliness, crushability, crushableness, daintiness, debilitation, debility, decrepitude, defect, defection, deficiency, delicacy, delicate health, destructibility, diaphanousness, dilutedness, dilution, disintegration, drawback, effeminacy, enervation, ethereality, exhaustion, exiguity, exility, failing, failure, faintheartedness, faintness, fallibility, fault, faute, fear, feeblemindedness, feebleness, fineness, fissility, flaw, flimsiness, foible, fracturableness, fragility, frangibility, friability, gauziness, gossameriness, gracility, healthlessness, hole, human equation, human frailty, human weakness, humanity, humanness, hypochondria, hypochondriasis, ill health, imperfection, impressionability, inadequacy, indecisiveness, infirmity, infirmity of will, inherent vice, insubstantiality, invalidism, invalidity, irresolution, kink, lacerability, laciness, languishing, languishment, liability, lightness, little problem, mistiness, moral flaw, moral weakness, morbidity, morbidness, mortality, paperiness, peakedness, pliability, poor health, problem, rarity, rift, shortcoming, sickliness, sleaziness, slenderness, slightness, slimness, snag, something missing, spinelessness, subtility, suggestibility, susceptibility, taint, tenuity, thinness, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unsubstantiality, unwholesomeness, vagueness, valetudinarianism, velleity, vice, vulnerability, vulnerable place, wasting, wateriness, weak link, weak point, weak side, weak will, weak-mindedness, weakliness, weakness, wispiness, womanishness ... show more.
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