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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
frailty \frail"ty\ (fr[=a]l"t[y^]), noun; pl. {frailties} (fr[=a]l"t[i^]z). [OE. frelete, freilte, OF. frailet['e], fr. L. fragilitas. See {Frail}, adjective, 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.
God knows our frailty, [and] pities our weakness. --Locke.
2. A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.
Syn: Frailness; fragility; imperfection; failing.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
frailty
noun
1: the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) [syn: {infirmity}, {debility}, {feebleness}, {frailness}]
2: moral weakness [syn: {vice}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
147 Moby Thesaurus words for "frailty": 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
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