fragility

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility. countable,uncountable
    — 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; […].
  2. Weakness; feebleness. countable,uncountable
  3. Liability to error and sin; frailty. countable,obsolete,uncountable

词形变化

fragilities plural

词源

Borrowed from Middle French fragilité, from Latin fragilitās. Doublet of frailty. Morphologically fragile + -ity.
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