Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Fragility.

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  • noun The property of being fragile.

Etymologies

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fragile +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • I think there's a lot of fragileness about our psyche right now in this city.

    CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2008 2008

  • Once you get somebody thinking about the fragileness and brevity of our time here on Earth, their bra strap practically unhooks itself.

    Mike Gerber: Death Finally Checkmates Ingmar Bergman 2008

  • Page: 154 first discovered poetry and had come up softly, hardly daring to move lest in its very fragileness it should vanish; then as it grew clearer she had come up triumphantly because there was so much joy in her heart.

    DEVELOPMENT A NOVEL BY W. BRYHER WITH A PREFACE BY AMY LOWELL 1920

  • "A continual reminder of the fragileness of life and the fact that people when they look for hope are looking for constance in their life, in a world that's influx."

    1-Top Stories 2010

  • We shall survive, succeed and endure to a point where these acts will only be a faint memory and cautionary tale for future generations about the fragileness of liberty and the tyrannical enslavement of modern liberal philosophy.

    RedState 2009

  • I used this as an outlet to express my emotional fragileness.

    Home 2009

  • I think it would be, in light of the fragileness, in light of the pain we've experienced, in light of the high unemployment, a very, very severely disruptive act and experience.

    Democracy Now! 2009

  • It does not mean they should be written off, yet it exposes fragileness in the entire outfit, '

    India eNews 2008

  • It does not mean they should be written off, yet it exposes fragileness in the entire outfit, '

    India eNews 2008

  • It does not mean they should be written off, yet it exposes fragileness in the entire outfit, '

    India eNews 2008

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