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| Main Entry: |
fragility
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | frangibleness |
| Synonyms: | brittleness, delicacy, frailty |
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| Main Entry: | delicacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daintiness, fineness of structure |
| Synonyms: | airiness, debility, diaphaneity, elegance, etherealness, exquisiteness, fragility, frailness, frailty, gossameriness, infirmity, lightness, slenderness, smoothness, softness, subtlety, tenderness, tenuity, translucency, transparency, weakness |
| Antonyms: | coarseness, heaviness, indelicacy, inelegance, robustness, roughness |
| Main Entry: | weakness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defect, proneness |
| Synonyms: | Achilles heel, appetite*, blemish, chink in armor, debility, decrepitude, deficiency, delicacy, enervation, failing, faintness, fault, feebleness, flaw, fondness, fragility, frailty, gap, impairment, imperfection, impotence, inclination, inconstancy, indecision, infirmity, instability, invalidity, irresolution, lack, languor, lapse, liking, passion, penchant, powerlessness, predilection, proclivity, prostration, senility, shortcoming, soft spot, sore point, taste*, vice, vitiation, vulnerability |
| Antonyms: | strength, strong point |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gentleness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical sensitivity |
| Synonyms: | delicacy, fragility, mildness, pliability, pliancy, smoothness, softness, sweetness, tenderness |
| Antonyms: | hardness, imperviousness, roughness |
| Main Entry: | delicateness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | frailness |
| Synonyms: | debility, decrepitude, delicacy, feebleness, fragileness, fragility, frailty, unsoundness, weakliness, weakness |
| Main Entry: | flimsiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weakness |
| Synonyms: | delicacy, delicateness, feebleness, flaw, fragileness, fragility, frailness, frailty, insubstantiality, shoddiness, shortcoming, unsoundness, unsubstantiality |
| Main Entry: | fragileness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | frailness |
| Synonyms: | debility, decrepitude, delicacy, delicateness, enfeeblement, feebleness, flimsiness, fragility, frailty, infirmity, unsoundness, weakliness, weakness |
| Main Entry: | frailness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fragileness |
| Synonyms: | debility, decrepitude, delicacy, delicateness, enfeeblement, feebleness, flimsiness, fragility, frailty, infirmity, unsoundness, weakliness, weakness |
| Main Entry: | insubstantiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | infirmity |
| Synonyms: | affliction, ailing, ailment, confinement, debilitation, debility, decay, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, delicacy, delicateness, disease, diseasedness, disorder, failing, fault, feebleness, flimsiness, flu, fragileness, fragility, frailness, frailty, ill health, imperfection, indisposition, malady, malaise, puniness, shortcoming, sickliness, unhealth, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unsubstantiality, unwellness, vulnerability, weakliness, weakness* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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