friability
- noun
- /ˌfraɪəˈbɪlɪti/
- Specialized
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friabilidad
- The friability of the old bread meant it was perfect for making breadcrumbs.
Examples
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The friability of the soil makes it easy to use for planting crops.
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And, like other aspects of their perceptions and beliefs, their emotional cognitions are available to critical (albeit, given the friability and energy of most forms of emotional reasoning, very careful) scrutiny.
Academic text (2014) -
When the pottery was fired, its friability became evident as it crumbled easily.
Synonyms
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5.2
Something that is easy to break or damage, like glass
How easily something breaks into small pieces
The ability of something to break easily
The quality of being easily broken or damaged
Antonyms
How Fragile
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Friability comes from friable, which means 'easily crumbled' and goes back to old words meaning 'to break'. Think of the familiar word fragile ('easy to break') — friability is simply the quality of being able to crumble or fall apart easily.