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Frailness vs Fragility - What's the difference?

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Frailness is a related term of fragility.


As nouns the difference between frailness and fragility

is that frailness is the state of being frail; frailty; weakness while fragility is the condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.

frailness

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The state of being frail; frailty; weakness.

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    fragility

    English

    Noun

    (fragilities)
  • The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.
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    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=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; […].}}
  • Weakness; feebleness.
  • (obsolete) Liability to error and sin; frailty.

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