fragility

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/fɹəˈd͡ʒɪlɪti/

Definition of fragility

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

(countable, uncountable)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; […].”

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noun

(countable, uncountable)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; […].”
(countable, uncountable)Weakness; feebleness.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Liability to error and sin; frailty.

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Borrowed from Middle French fragilité, from Latin fragilitās. Doublet of frailty. Morphologically fragile + -ity.

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