"fragility" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /fɹəˈd͡ʒɪlɪti/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-fragility.wav Forms: fragilities [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪlɪti Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French fragilité, from Latin fragilitās. Doublet of frailty. Morphologically fragile + -ity Etymology templates: {{bor|en|frm|fragilité}} Middle French fragilité, {{der|en|la|fragilitās}} Latin fragilitās, {{doublet|en|frailty}} Doublet of frailty, {{suffix|en|fragile|ity|nocat=1}} fragile + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} fragility (countable and uncountable, plural fragilities)
  1. The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (condition or quality of being fragile): fraxilidá [feminine] (Asturian), чупливост (čuplivost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), трошливост (trošlivost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), fragilitat [feminine] (Catalan), křehkost [feminine] (Czech), skrøbelighed [common-gender] (Danish), broosheid [feminine] (Dutch), hauraus (Finnish), fragilité [feminine] (French), fraxilidade [feminine] (Galician), Zerbrechlichkeit [feminine] (German), frajileso (Ido), leochaileacht [feminine] (Irish), sobhristeacht [feminine] (Irish), fragilità [feminine] (Italian), fragilitās [feminine] (Latin), kerapuhan (Malay), kopītanga (Maori), fragilidade [feminine] (Portuguese), хрупкость (xrupkostʹ) (Russian), недолговечность (nedolgovečnostʹ) (Russian), krhkost [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), lomljivost [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), fragilidad [feminine] (Spanish), skörhet [common-gender] (Swedish), ömtålighet [common-gender] (Swedish), kırılganlık (Turkish), narinlik (Turkish), hassaslık (Turkish), kırılabilirlik (Turkish), frajilite (Turkish), кри́хкість (krýxkistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), ла́мкість (lámkistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
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  2. Weakness; feebleness. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (weakness): слабост (slabost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), деликатност (delikatnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), heikkous (Finnish), laige [feminine] (Irish), сла́бость (slábostʹ) (Russian)
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  3. (obsolete) Liability to error and sin; frailty. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: black fragility, white fragility

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "black fragility"
    },
    {
      "word": "white fragility"
    }
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        "2": "frm",
        "3": "fragilité"
      },
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      "name": "bor"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "fragilitās"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin fragilitās",
      "name": "der"
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frailty"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of frailty",
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fragile",
        "3": "ity",
        "nocat": "1"
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    }
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Middle French fragilité, from Latin fragilitās. Doublet of frailty.\nMorphologically fragile + -ity",
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      "form": "fragilities",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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        "1": "~"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:",
          "text": "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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        "The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility."
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          "fragile",
          "fragile"
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          "brittleness",
          "brittleness"
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          "frangibility",
          "frangibility"
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        "countable",
        "uncountable"
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "Weakness; feebleness."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Weakness",
          "weakness"
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          "feebleness",
          "feebleness"
        ]
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      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Liability to error and sin; frailty."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "error",
          "error"
        ],
        [
          "sin",
          "sin"
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          "frailty",
          "frailty"
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        "(obsolete) Liability to error and sin; frailty."
      ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/fɹəˈd͡ʒɪlɪti/"
    },
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    },
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      "rhymes": "-ɪlɪti"
    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fraxilidá"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "čuplivost",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "чупливост"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "trošlivost",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "трошливост"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fragilitat"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "křehkost"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "skrøbelighed"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "broosheid"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "word": "hauraus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fragilité"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fraxilidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Zerbrechlichkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "word": "frajileso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "leochaileacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sobhristeacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fragilità"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fragilitās"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "word": "kerapuhan"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "word": "kopītanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fragilidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "xrupkostʹ",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "word": "хрупкость"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nedolgovečnostʹ",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "word": "недолговечность"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "krhkost"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lomljivost"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fragilidad"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "skörhet"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "ömtålighet"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "word": "kırılganlık"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "word": "narinlik"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "word": "hassaslık"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "word": "kırılabilirlik"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "word": "frajilite"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "krýxkistʹ",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "кри́хкість"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "lámkistʹ",
      "sense": "condition or quality of being fragile",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ла́мкість"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "slabost",
      "sense": "weakness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "слабост"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "delikatnost",
      "sense": "weakness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "деликатност"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "weakness",
      "word": "heikkous"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "weakness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "laige"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "slábostʹ",
      "sense": "weakness",
      "word": "сла́бость"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fragility"
}

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