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Frailty vs Friable - What's the difference?

frailty | friable |

As a noun frailty

is the condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liability to be deceived or seduced.

As an adjective friable is

easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.

frailty

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liability to be deceived or seduced.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 36, n. 1.
    • the limitations and restraints of civil government, and a legal constitution, may be defended, either from reason, which reflecting on the great frailty and corruption of human nature, teaches, that no man can safely be trusted with unlimited authority ;
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 29 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=For all their frailty at the back, Arsenal possessed genuine menace in attack and they carved through Chelsea with ease to restore parity nine minutes before half-time. Aaron Ramsey's pass was perfection and Gervinho took the unselfish option to set up Van Persie for a tap-in.}}
  • A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.

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    friable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
  • * 1977 , (Angela Carter), The Passion of New Eve :
    • Spiders had woven their vague trapezes between the friable heads of dead peonies in enormous glass jars streaked with tide marks where the water had evaporated long ago.
  • * 1983 , (Lawrence Durrell), Sebastian'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 1020:
    • This light, friable type of material offered excellent insulation against both desert heat and also the cold of darkness during the winter.
  • (of soil) Loose and large-grained in consistency.
  • (of poisons) Likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk
    • April 1987 , Old-House Journal
    It is when asbestos-containing products are friable that hazardous asbestos fibers are likely to be released and sent airborne.

    Synonyms

    * (easily broken into small fragments) crumbly

    Derived terms

    * friableness * friably * friability

    See also

    * brittle

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