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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
frailty \frail"ty\ fr=al"ty^, n.; pl. frailties
fr=al"ti^z. oe. frelete, freilte, of. frailet'e, fr.
l. fragilitas. see frail, a., and cf. fragility.
1. the condition or quality of being frail, physically,
mentally, or morally; frailness; infirmity; weakness of
resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced.
1913 webster
god knows our frailty, and pities our weakness.
--locke.
1913 webster
2. a fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of
infirmity.
syn: frailness; fragility; imperfection; failing.
1913 webster
see also:
frailties frail fragility
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
frailty
n 1: the state of being weak in health or body especially from
old age syn: infirmity, debility, feebleness, frailness
2: moral weakness syn: vice
see also:
infirmity debility feebleness frailness vice
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
147 moby thesaurus words for "frailty":
abulia, airiness, airy texture, amiable weakness, attenuation,
bad habit, besetting sin, blemish, breakability, breakableness,
brittleness, bug, cachexia, cachexy, catch, changeableness,
chronic ill health, collapse, cowardice, crack, crackability,
crackableness, crispness, crumbliness, crushability, crushableness,
daintiness, debilitation, debility, decrepitude, defect, defection,
deficiency, delicacy, delicate health, destructibility,
diaphanousness, dilutedness, dilution, disintegration, drawback,
effeminacy, enervation, ethereality, exhaustion, exiguity, exility,
failing, failure, faintheartedness, faintness, fallibility, fault,
faute, fear, feeblemindedness, feebleness, fineness, fissility,
flaw, flimsiness, foible, fracturableness, fragility, frangibility,
friability, gauziness, gossameriness, gracility, healthlessness,
hole, human equation, human frailty, human weakness, humanity,
humanness, hypochondria, hypochondriasis, ill health, imperfection,
impressionability, inadequacy, indecisiveness, infirmity,
infirmity of will, inherent vice, insubstantiality, invalidism,
invalidity, irresolution, kink, lacerability, laciness,
languishing, languishment, liability, lightness, little problem,
mistiness, moral flaw, moral weakness, morbidity, morbidness,
mortality, paperiness, peakedness, pliability, poor health,
problem, rarity, rift, shortcoming, sickliness, sleaziness,
slenderness, slightness, slimness, snag, something missing,
spinelessness, subtility, suggestibility, susceptibility, taint,
tenuity, thinness, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unsubstantiality,
unwholesomeness, vagueness, valetudinarianism, velleity, vice,
vulnerability, vulnerable place, wasting, wateriness, weak link,
weak point, weak side, weak will, weak-mindedness, weakliness,
weakness, wispiness, womanishness
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