fragility
noun/fɹəˈd͡ʒɪlɪti/
Etymology Borrowed from Middle French fragilité, from Latin fragilitās. Doublet of frailty. Morphologically fragile + -ity.
1
The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.
- 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; […].2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
2
Weakness; feebleness.
3
Obsolete Liability to error and sin; frailty.