Word Meanings - FRAGILITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility. Bacon. 2. Weakness; feebleness. An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to it . Burke. 3. Liability to error and sin; frailty. The fragility

Additional info about word: FRAGILITY

1. The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility. Bacon. 2. Weakness; feebleness. An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to it . Burke. 3. Liability to error and sin; frailty. The fragility and youthful folly of Qu. Fabius. Holland.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FRAGILITY)

• Delicacy
• Nicety
• dainty
• mor
• sel
• refinement
• tact
• softness
• luxury
• modesty
• scruple
• sensitiveness
• fragility

Related words: (words related to FRAGILITY)

• NICETY
  1. The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.). The miller smiled of her nicety. Chaucer. 2. Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision. 3. A delicate expression, act,
• DAINTY
  deyntee, OF. deintié delicacy, orig., dignity, honor, fr. L. 1. Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything. I ne told no deyntee of her love. Chaucer. 2. That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy. That precious nectar
• FRAGILITY
  1. The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility. Bacon. 2. Weakness; feebleness. An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to it . Burke. 3. Liability to error and sin; frailty. The fragility
• MODESTY
  1. The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit. 2. Natural delicacy
• SOFTNESS
  The quality or state of being soft; -- opposed to Ant: hardness, and used in the various specific senses of the adjective.
• LUXURY
  1. A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes. Riches expose a man to pride and luxury. Spectator. 2. Anything which pleases the senses, and is also costly, or difficult to
• REFINEMENT
  1. The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas. The more bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they. Norris. From the civil war to this time, I doubt
• SCRUPLE
  twenty-fourth part of an ounce, a scruple, uneasiness, doubt, dim. of scrupus a rough or sharp stone, anxiety, uneasiness; perh. akin to 1. A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram. 2. Hence, a very small quantity; a particle. I will
• SCRUPLER
  One who scruples.
• DELICACY
  1. The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like. What choice to choose for delicacy best. Milton. 2. Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution;
• IMMODESTY
  Want of modesty, delicacy, or decent reserve; indecency. "A piece of immodesty." Pope.
• INDELICACY
  The quality of being indelicate; want of delicacy, or of a nice sense of, or regard for, purity, propriety, or refinement in manners, language, etc.; rudeness; coarseness; also, that which is offensive to refined taste or purity of mind.
• OVERREFINEMENT
  Excessive refinement.