frangibility

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Security Council meeting, or a small old-growth forest of rustic redwood, there’s no mistaking his idiosyncratic mien, redolent of pine and frangibility.

From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2016

In iron clad Sometimes thy feature roughen to the sight, And oft transparent art thou seen in glass, Portending frangibility.

From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by Billings, E. R.

The history of rachitis, of melanosis, and of osteoporosis, as related to an abnormal frangibility of the bones, is a part of our common medical knowledge.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

Brittleness -- N. brittleness &c. adj.; fragility, friability, frangibility, fissibility†; house of cards, house of glass.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark