fragility Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun quality of being easily damaged or destroyed
    frangibleness; breakability; frangibility.
  2. noun lack of physical strength
    delicacy.

WordNet

Fra*gil"i*ty noun
Etymology
L. fragilitas: cf. F. fragilité. Cf. Frailty.
Definitions
  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 [beauty]. Burke.
  3. Liability to error and sin; frailty. Obs.
    The fragility and youthful folly of Qu. Fabius. Holland.

Webster 1913