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fragilities

fragilities is the plural of fragility.

Meaning of fragility

Noun

fragility (countable and uncountable, plural fragilities)

  1. The 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 36
    Synonyms:
    fragileness
  2. Weakness; feebleness.
  3. (obsolete) Liability to error and sin; frailty.

Questions about fragilities

What is fragilities the plural of?
Fragilities is the plural of fragility.

Words near fragilities in the dictionary

  1. fragiles
  2. fragilest
  3. fragilin
  4. fragilise
  5. fragilitas crinium
  6. fragilities
  7. fragility
  8. fragility test
  9. fragility tests
  10. fragilization
  11. fragilizations

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