Meanings
plural fragilities
- countableuncountableThe 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 36Synonyms: fragileness
- countableuncountableWeakness; feebleness.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.
More synonyms by meaning
nounquality of being easily damaged or destroyed
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinfragilitās
- Middle Frenchfragilité
- Englishfragility
Borrowed from Middle French fragilité, from Latin fragilitās. Doublet of frailty. Morphologically fragile + -ity.
More words from Middle French, Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian чупливост, трошливост
- чупливост (čuplivost)condition or quality of being fragile
- трошливост (trošlivost)condition or quality of being fragile
- слабост (slabost)weakness — see also weakness
- деликатност (delikatnost)weakness — see also weakness
Catalan fragilitat
- fragilitatcondition or quality of being fragile
Czech křehkost
- křehkostcondition or quality of being fragile
Danish skrøbelighed
- skrøbelighedcondition or quality of being fragile
Dutch broosheid
- broosheidcondition or quality of being fragile
Finnish hauraus, heikkous
- haurauscondition or quality of being fragile
- heikkousweakness — see also weakness
French fragilité
- fragilitécondition or quality of being fragile
German Zerbrechlichkeit
- Zerbrechlichkeitcondition or quality of being fragile
Hindi भंगुरता
- भंगुरता (bhaṅgurtā)condition or quality of being fragile
Irish leochaileacht, sobhristeacht
- leochaileachtcondition or quality of being fragile
- sobhristeachtcondition or quality of being fragile
- laigeweakness — see also weakness
Italian fragilità
- fragilitàcondition or quality of being fragile
Latin fragilitās
- fragilitāscondition or quality of being fragile
Malay kerapuhan
- kerapuhancondition or quality of being fragile
Māori kopītanga
- kopītangacondition or quality of being fragile
Portuguese fragilidade
- fragilidadecondition or quality of being fragile
Russian хрупкость, недолговечность
- хрупкость (xrupkostʹ)condition or quality of being fragile
- недолговечность (nedolgovečnostʹ)condition or quality of being fragile
- сла́бость (slábostʹ)weakness — see also weakness
Spanish fragilidad
- fragilidadcondition or quality of being fragile
Swedish skörhet, ömtålighet
- skörhetcondition or quality of being fragile
- ömtålighetcondition or quality of being fragile
Turkish kırılganlık, narinlik
- kırılganlıkcondition or quality of being fragile
- narinlikcondition or quality of being fragile
- hassaslıkcondition or quality of being fragile
- kırılabilirlikcondition or quality of being fragile
- frajilitecondition or quality of being fragile
Ukrainian кри́хкість, ла́мкість
- кри́хкість (krýxkistʹ)condition or quality of being fragile
- ла́мкість (lámkistʹ)condition or quality of being fragile
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with fragility
Cite this entry
fragility. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fragility
“fragility.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fragility. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fragility,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fragility.
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