Dictionary

fragility en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /fɹəˈd͡ʒɪlɪti/

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (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; […]. 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
2. (countable, uncountable) Weakness; feebleness.
3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Liability to error and sin; frailty.

Forms

Deriveds

infragility · antifragility · skin fragility syndrome · white fragility · fragility test · osmofragility · black fragility

Synonyms

fragileness

Translations (40)

bg деликатност (weakness — see also weakness) · tr narinlik (condition or quality of being fragile) · ga laige (weakness — see also weakness) · uk ла́мкість (condition or quality of being fragile) · tr hassaslık (condition or quality of being fragile) · sh krhkost (condition or quality of being fragile) · la fragilitās (condition or quality of being fragile) · bg слабост (weakness — see also weakness) · fr fragilité (condition or quality of being fragile) · tr kırılabilirlik (condition or quality of being fragile) · da skrøbelighed (condition or quality of being fragile) · ga sobhristeacht (condition or quality of being fragile) · tr frajilite (condition or quality of being fragile) · ast fraxilidá (condition or quality of being fragile) · ru сла́бость (weakness — see also weakness) · fi heikkous (weakness — see also weakness) · bg трошливост (condition or quality of being fragile) · ms kerapuhan (condition or quality of being fragile) · fi hauraus (condition or quality of being fragile) · de Zerbrechlichkeit (condition or quality of being fragile) · it fragilità (condition or quality of being fragile) · io frajileso (condition or quality of being fragile) · nl broosheid (condition or quality of being fragile) · mfe frazilite (condition or quality of being fragile) · es fragilidad (condition or quality of being fragile) · ga leochaileacht (condition or quality of being fragile) · cs křehkost (condition or quality of being fragile) · gl fraxilidade (condition or quality of being fragile) · uk кри́хкість (condition or quality of being fragile) · sv skörhet (condition or quality of being fragile) · hi भंगुरता (condition or quality of being fragile) · pt fragilidade (condition or quality of being fragile) · ca fragilitat (condition or quality of being fragile) · ru недолговечность (condition or quality of being fragile) · bg чупливост (condition or quality of being fragile) · sv ömtålighet (condition or quality of being fragile) · mi kopītanga (condition or quality of being fragile) · tr kırılganlık (condition or quality of being fragile) · ru хрупкость (condition or quality of being fragile) · sh lomljivost (condition or quality of being fragile)