fragility
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5.2
- noun
- /frəˈdʒɪlɪti/
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fragilidad
- In truth, life's beauty and its fragility are interwoven.
- fragility and vulnerability
- aware of the fragility
- fragility of democracy
I find that Americans see the fragility in changes.
- I find that Americans see the fragility in changes.
- In truth, life's beauty and its fragility are interwoven.
- So, you know, there is a fragility that is interwoven in life.
- It is hard to tell ourselves the truth about our failures, our fragilities, our uncertainties.
- It's it's not put into the fragility of the system in which we currently live.
- It's that's the very definition of love exposing your fragility.
- Life's beauty is inseparable from its fragility.
- And I think as a consequence, you see a lot of young people with a great deal of fragility.
- You see that fragility of people that believe in themselves.
Examples
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Life's beauty and its fragility are interwoven.
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Just long enough for you to appreciate the fragility of our delicate ecosystem.
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You know, the reality of life is that beauty and fragility hold hands with one another.
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But this incident with John made me realize the fragility of all this.
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But I fear the loss of her parents... has given her a certain fragility.
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At any other moment, such fragility in a human being would have cast me back on my own mortality.
Academic text (2011) -
We can look for beauty and embrace our ultimate fragility any time we choose.
Academic text (1999) -
There's a lot of talk about the fragility of long term relationships and divorce rates going up.
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It has shown both the fragility of our globe and the fragility of American democracy.
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The fragility of the antique vase made me nervous as I carried it to the display.
Synonyms
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5.1
A state of being easily harmed physically or emotionally
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5.4
Hard and breaks easily, like glass
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4.4
Being weak and not well made so it breaks or fails easily
How easily something breaks or gets damaged
The quality of being easily broken or damaged
The ability of something to break easily
How easily something is damaged or comes apart when dropped
How easily something can be broken or ruined
A measure of how easily something can be harmed or broken
How easily a material breaks or snaps
Antonyms
How Fragile
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fragility comes from the Latin root frag- meaning 'to break', which you can see in familiar words like fragile and fragment. So, fragility is the quality of being 'easily broken' or damaged.