friability

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noun

The quality of being friable, or easily broken, crumbled, or reduced to powder; friableness.

Similar
crumbliness
Opposite
nonfriability
OriginFrench friabilité →
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Meanings

nounfriability (countable and uncountable, plural friabilities)

plural friabilities

  1. countableuncountableThe quality of being friable, or easily broken, crumbled, or reduced to powder; friableness.

    Antonyms: nonfriability

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe quality of being friable, or easily broken, crumbled, or reduced to powder; friableness.

Opposite
nonfriability

More synonyms by meaning

nounexcessive breakableness

Similar
crumbliness
Broader
breakableness
Also see
crumbliness

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Frenchfriabilité
  2. Englishfriability

From French friabilité.

More words from French

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Bulgarian ронливост, трошливост
  • ронливост (ronlivost)quality of being friable
  • трошливост (trošlivost)quality of being friable
French friabilité
  • friabilitéquality of being friable
German Mürbe
  • Mürbequality of being friable
Romanian friabilitate
  • friabilitatequality of being friable
Russian рыхлость
  • рыхлость (ryxlostʹ)quality of being friable
Spanish friabilidad
  • friabilidadquality of being friable
Swedish luckerhet
  • luckerhetquality of being friable
Turkish gevreklik
  • gevreklikquality of being friable
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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “friability,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/friability.

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