fragility
The condition or quality of being fragileThe condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.
» Remember the fragility of your existence.
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3 senses(countable, uncountable)The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.
Zerbrechlichkeit
хрупкостьxrupkostʹ, недолговечностьnedolgovečnostʹ
кри́хкістьkrýxkistʹ, ла́мкістьlámkistʹ
(countable, uncountable)Weakness; feebleness.
сла́бостьslábostʹ
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Liability to error and sin; frailty.
- lack of physical strength
- quality of being easily damaged or destroyed
Examples
4 sentencesRemember the fragility of your existence.
You tread lightly, as though you understand the fragility of life.
His untimely death reminded people of the fragility of life and its unpredictability.
Liquid love is a concept created by sociologist Zygmunt Bauman concerning the fragility of human bonds in postmodernity.
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from Middle French fragilité, from Latin fragilitās. Doublet of frailty. MorpholoBorrowed from Middle French fragilité, from Latin fragilitās. Doublet of frailty. Morphologically fragile + -ity.
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Forms
plural: fragilities| Singular | fragility |
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Synonyms
5 synonyms- lack of physical strength:delicacy
- quality of being easily damaged or destroyed:breakabilityfrangiblenessfrangibility
Word family
7 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.