Imbecility vs Frailty - What's the difference?
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The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, especially of mind.
Something imbecilic; a stupid action, behaviour, etc.
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(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.
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A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.
Imbecility is a related term of frailty.
As nouns the difference between imbecility and frailty
is that imbecility is the quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, especially of mind while frailty is (uncountable) the condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liability to be deceived or seduced.imbecility
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- 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 ;
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