fragility

Noun

Meaning

The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.

Liability to error and sin; frailty.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

delicacy frangibility breakability frangibleness weak instability exhaustion insecurity incapacity impotence brittleness infirmity frailty faintness senility

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Antonyms

power obesity fortitude juggernaut brawn violence

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Hypernyms

weakness vulnerability

Phrases with the word

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Examples

The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility. Paulo Coelho

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity. Simone Weil

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. Norman Cousins

things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision. E. E. Cummings

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Van Gogh.. Fascinating. The fragility of that strong spirit. Bram van Velde

Close letter words and terms

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