'frailty' definitions:
Definition of 'frailty'
(from WordNet)
noun
The state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) [syn: infirmity, frailty, debility, feebleness, frailness, valetudinarianism]
noun
Moral weakness [syn: frailty, vice]
Definition of 'frailty'
From: GCIDE
- frailty \frail"ty\ (fr[=a]l"t[y^]), n.; pl. frailties (fr[=a]l"t[i^]z). [OE. frelete, freilte, OF. frailet['e], fr. L. fragilitas. See Frail, a., and cf. Fragility.]
- 1. The condition or quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced. [1913 Webster]
- God knows our frailty, [and] pities our weakness. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.
- Syn: Frailness; fragility; imperfection; failing. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'frailty'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abulia,
- airiness,
- airy texture,
- amiable weakness,
- attenuation,
- bad habit,
- besetting sin,
- blemish,
- breakability,
- breakableness,
- brittleness,
- bug,
- cachexia,
- cachexy,
- catch,
- changeableness,
- chronic ill health,
- collapse,
- cowardice,
- crack,
- crackability,
- crackableness,
- crispness,
- crumbliness,
- crushability,
- crushableness,
- daintiness,
- debilitation,
- debility,
- decrepitude,
- defect,
- defection,
- deficiency,
- delicacy,
- delicate health,
- destructibility,
- diaphanousness,
- dilutedness,
- dilution,
- disintegration,
- drawback,
- effeminacy,
- enervation,
- ethereality,
- exhaustion,
- exiguity,
- exility,
- failing,
- failure,
- faintheartedness,
- faintness,
- fallibility,
- fault,
- faute,
- fear,
- feeblemindedness,
- feebleness,
- fineness,
- fissility,
- flaw,
- flimsiness,
- foible,
- fracturableness,
- fragility,
- frangibility,
- friability,
- gauziness,
- gossameriness,
- gracility,
- healthlessness,
- hole,
- human equation,
- human frailty,
- human weakness,
- humanity,
- humanness,
- hypochondria,
- hypochondriasis,
- ill health,
- imperfection,
- impressionability,
- inadequacy,
- indecisiveness,
- infirmity,
- infirmity of will,
- inherent vice,
- insubstantiality,
- invalidism,
- invalidity,
- irresolution,
- kink,
- lacerability,
- laciness,
- languishing,
- languishment,
- liability,
- lightness,
- little problem,
- mistiness,
- moral flaw,
- moral weakness,
- morbidity,
- morbidness,
- mortality,
- paperiness,
- peakedness,
- pliability,
- poor health,
- problem,
- rarity,
- rift,
- shortcoming,
- sickliness,
- sleaziness,
- slenderness,
- slightness,
- slimness,
- snag,
- something missing,
- spinelessness,
- subtility,
- suggestibility,
- susceptibility,
- taint,
- tenuity,
- thinness,
- unhealthiness,
- unsoundness,
- unsubstantiality,
- unwholesomeness,
- vagueness,
- valetudinarianism,
- velleity,
- vice,
- vulnerability,
- vulnerable place,
- wasting,
- wateriness,
- weak link,
- weak point,
- weak side,
- weak will,
- weak-mindedness,
- weakliness,
- weakness,
- wispiness,
- womanishness