frailty Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
    valetudinarianism; debility; frailness; feebleness; infirmity.
  2. noun moral weakness
    vice.

WordNet

Frail"ty noun
Etymology
OE. frelete, freilte, OF. fraileté, fr. L. fragilitas. See Frail, a., and cf. Fragility.
Wordforms
plural Frailties
Definitions
  1. The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced.
    God knows our frailty, [and] pities our weakness. Locke.
  2. A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity. Syn. -- Frailness; fragility; imperfection; failing.

Webster 1913