| Main Entry: | fragility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | frangibleness |
Synonyms: |
brittleness, delicacy, frailty |
| Main Entry: | fragility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
short, arenaceous, arenarious, arenose, attrite, branny, brittle, brittle as glass, crimp, crisp, crumbly, dusty, efflorescent, esquillous, farinaceous, fissile, flocculent, floury, fragile, frail, frangible, friable, furfuraceous, gimcrack, granular, gritty, impalpable, in pieces, lacerable, mealy, phut, powdery, psammous, pulverizable, pulverized, pulverulent, sabulous, sandy, shivery, splintery, splitting, tophaceous, triturated
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| Main Entry: | delicacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daintiness, fineness of structure |
Synonyms: |
airiness, debility, diaphaneity, elegance, etherealness, exquisiteness, fragility, frailness, frailty, gossameriness, infirmity, lightness, slenderness, smoothness, softness, subtlety, tenderness, tenuity, translucency, transparency, weakness |
Antonyms: |
coarseness, heaviness, indelicacy, inelegance, robustness, roughness |
| Main Entry: | weakness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defect, proneness |
Synonyms: |
Achilles heel, appetite*, blemish, chink in armor, debility, decrepitude, deficiency, delicacy, enervation, failing, faintness, fault, feebleness, flaw, fondness, fragility, frailty, gap, impairment, imperfection, impotence, inclination, inconstancy, indecision, infirmity, instability, invalidity, irresolution, lack, languor, lapse, liking, passion, penchant, powerlessness, predilection, proclivity, prostration, senility, shortcoming, soft spot, sore point, taste*, vice, vitiation, vulnerability |
Antonyms: |
strength, strong point |
| Main Entry: | gentleness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical sensitivity |
Synonyms: |
delicacy, fragility, mildness, pliability, pliancy, smoothness, softness, sweetness, tenderness |
Antonyms: |
hardness, imperviousness, roughness |
| Main Entry: | delicateness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | frailness |
Synonyms: |
debility, decrepitude, delicacy, feebleness, fragileness, fragility, frailty, unsoundness, weakliness, weakness |
| Main Entry: | flimsiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weakness |
Synonyms: |
delicacy, delicateness, feebleness, flaw, fragileness, fragility, frailness, frailty, insubstantiality, shoddiness, shortcoming, unsoundness, unsubstantiality |
| Main Entry: | fragileness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | frailness |
Synonyms: |
debility, decrepitude, delicacy, delicateness, enfeeblement, feebleness, flimsiness, fragility, frailty, infirmity, unsoundness, weakliness, weakness |
| Main Entry: | frailness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fragileness |
Synonyms: |
debility, decrepitude, delicacy, delicateness, enfeeblement, feebleness, flimsiness, fragility, frailty, infirmity, unsoundness, weakliness, weakness |
| Main Entry: | insubstantiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | infirmity |
Synonyms: |
affliction, ailing, ailment, confinement, debilitation, debility, decay, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, delicacy, delicateness, disease, diseasedness, disorder, failing, fault, feebleness, flimsiness, flu, fragileness, fragility, frailness, frailty, ill health, imperfection, indisposition, malady, malaise, puniness, shortcoming, sickliness, unhealth, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unsubstantiality, unwellness, vulnerability, weakliness, weakness* |