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单词 fragility
释义

fragility

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French fragilité, from Latin fragilitās. Doublet of frailty.

Morphologically fragile + -ity

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɹəˈd͡ʒɪlɪti/
  • Rhymes: -ɪlɪti

Noun

fragility (countable and uncountable, plural fragilities)

  1. The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.
    • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
      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.
  3. (obsolete) Liability to error and sin; frailty.

Derived terms

  • white fragility

Translations

References

  • fragility in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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