frailty
pronunciation
How to pronounce frailty in British English:
UK [ˈfreɪlti]
How to pronounce frailty in American English:
US [ˈfrelti]
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- Noun:
- the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
- moral weakness
Word Origin
- frailty (n.)
- mid-14c., freylte, from Old French fraileté "frailty, weakness," from Latin fragilitatem (nominative fragilitas) "weakness, frailty," from fragilis "fragile" (see fragility). Related: Frailties.
Example
- 1. At a time of economic frailty , that seems perverse .
- 2. Their frailty hesitates on the edge of a mountainside .
- 3. Yet blaming the worst outcomes of financial innovation on human frailty is hardly helpful .
- 4. The central frailty is financial .
- 5. But recognition of the systemic frailty of a complex financial system would be a good start .