frailness
51frail — adjective 1》 weak and delicate. 2》 easily damaged or broken. noun US informal, dated a woman. Derivatives frailly adverb frailness noun Origin ME: from OFr. fraile, from L. fragilis (see fragile) …
52frailty — n. 1. Weakness, feebleness, infirmity, frailness. 2. Fault, foible, defect, imperfection, failing, weak point, weak side, blind side. 3. Liability to err, proneness to error, want of moral strength (said especially of women in respect to… …
53infirmity — n. 1. Weakness, feebleness, debility, frailness, frailty. 2. Foible, fault, failing, defect, weakness …
54moving — moving, impressive, poignant, affecting, touching, pathetic are comparable when they mean having the power to excite or the effect of exciting deep and usually saddening and solemn emotion. Moving, the most general of these words, can be used in… …
55delicacy — n 1. lightness, fineness, slightness, slen derness, fragility, daintiness; translucency, tenuity, diaphaneity, transparence, etherealness, flimsiness; tenderness, softness. 2. tidbit, appetizer, dainty, bonbon, sweetmeat, luxury. 3. refinement,… …
56feebleness — n weakness, debility, Pathol. asthenia, infirmity, lack of strength, deficiency, invalidness; decrepitude, senility, incompetence, disability, incapacity, inability, incapability; impotence, powerlessness, impuissance, helplessness; frailty,… …
57invalidism — n 1. sickness, infirmity, illness, valetudinarianism, invalidity; weakening, weakness, feebleness, enfeeblement, frailty, frailness, helplessness; debilitation, debility, devitalization, decrepitude; exhaustion, prostration; disease, morbosity. 2 …
58tenuity — n 1. tenuousness, flimsiness. See tenuousness. 2. slenderness, thinness, fineness, leanness; gracility, gracileness, delicateness, delicacy; frailty, frailness, fragility, fragileness; sheerness, diaphaneity, diaphan ousness; lightness,… …
59thinness — n 1. leanness, spareness, attenuation, skinniness; narrowness, slenderness, slimness, gracili ty, gracileness, slightness; gauntness, lankness, lankiness, boniness; scrawniness, scragginess, scrubbiness, puniness, runtiness, smallness. 2.… …
60weakness — n 1. feebleness, puniness, frailty, frailness, fragility, fragileness, delicateness, delicacy; impotence, impuissance, powerlessness, helplessness, incapacity, inability, incapability, ineptness, ineptitude; exhaustion, enervation, lack of… …
