Word Meanings - FRAILTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, pities our weakness. Locke. 2. A fault proceeding from weakness;

Additional info about word: FRAILTY

1. The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, pities our weakness. Locke. 2. A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity. Syn. -- Frailness; fragility; imperfection; failing.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FRAILTY)

• Debility
• Weakness
• feebleness
• frailty
• infirmity
• incapacity
• imbecility
• enervation
• lassitude
• languor
• Peccability
• Frailty
• sinfulness
• dilution
• impairment
• decrepitude
• faintness
• inconclusiveness
• worthlessness
• want

Related words: (words related to FRAILTY)

• ENERVATION
  1. The act of weakening, or reducing strength. 2. The state of being weakened; effeminacy. Bacon.
• PECCABILITY
  The state or quality of being peccable; lability to sin. The common peccability of mankind. Dr. H. More.
• FRAILTY
  1. The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, pities our weakness. Locke. 2. A fault proceeding from weakness;
• IMBECILITY
  The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind. Cruelty . . . argues not only a depravedness of nature, but also a meanness of courage and imbecility of mind. Sir W. Temple. Note: This term is used specifically to denote natural
• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
• FEEBLENESS
  The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak.
• WEAKNESS
  1. The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness. 2. That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect. Many take pleasure in spreading
• LANGUOR
  1. A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity. 2. Any enfeebling disease. Sick men with divers languors. Wyclif . 3. Listless indolence; dreaminess.
• DEBILITY
  The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor. The inconveniences of too strong a perspiration, which are debility, faintness, and sometimes sudden death. Arbuthnot. Syn. -- Debility, Infirmity, Imbecility. An infirmity belongs, for the
• DECREPITUDE
  The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.
• LANGUOROUS
  Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by languor. Whom late I left in languorous constraint. Spenser. To wile the length from languorous hours, and draw The sting from pain. Tennyson.
• INCAPACITY
  Want of legal ability or competency to do, give, transmit, or receive something; inability; disqualification; as, the inacapacity of minors to make binding contracts, etc. Syn. -- Inability; incapability; incompetency; unfitness; disqualification;
• INFIRMITY
  1. The state of being infirm; feebleness; an imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infirmity of body or mind. 'T is the infirmity of his age. Shak. 2. A personal frailty or failing;
• FAINTNESS
  1. The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control. 2. Want of vigor or energy. Spenser. 3. Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description. 4. Faint-heartedness; timorousness;
• LASSITUDE
  A condition of the body, or mind, when its voluntary functions are performed with difficulty, and only by a strong exertion of the will; languor; debility; weariness. The corporeal instruments of action being strained to a high pitch . . . will
• DILUTION
  The act of diluting, or the state of being diluted. Arbuthnot.
• IMPECCABILITY
  the quality of being impeccable; exemption from sin, error, or offense. Infallibility and impeccability are two of his attributes. Pope.