fragility

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

Morphologically fragile +‎ -ity

• IPA^(key): /fɹəˈd͡ʒɪlɪti/

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• Rhymes: -ɪlɪti

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.

• black fragility
• white fragility

• “fragility”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.