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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fragility \Fra*gil"i*ty\, n. [L. fragilitas: cf F. fragilit['e]. Cf {Frailty}.] 1. The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility. --Bacon. 2. Weakness; feebleness. An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to it [beauty]. --Burke. 3. Liability to error and sin; frailty. [Obs.] The fragility and youthful folly of Qu Fabius. --Holland. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: fragility n 1: quality of being easily damaged or destroyed [syn: {breakability}] 2: lack of physical strength [syn: {delicacy}]
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