fragile
Because of the fragility of the documents, they cannot be touched by the public.
Given the fragility of the discs, they are not suitable for long-term archiving.
Her illness was a painful reminder of the fragility of life.
I always felt that there was a kind of emotional fragility about her.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Fragile and breakable
breakable
brittle
cobwebby
crumbly
delicacy
delicate
delicate operation
dodgy
fissile
flaky
flimsily
flimsiness
flimsy
fragile
frail
friable
ramshackle
rickety
tenuous
tenuously

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Weakness and vulnerability

fragility | Business English

fragility
noun[ U ]
uk /frəˈdʒɪləti/us
the state of being easily damaged, broken, or harmed:
fragility of sthIt had been a difficult year and the fragility of the economy could make the situation worse.

Examples of fragility

fragility
The diverse symptoms of schizophrenia, including perceptual, cognitive, and social impairments, may have arisen as a consequence of the developmental fragility of these complex networks.
How can one not see in this fragility of the voices present, the very picture of doubt, even, and of scepticism?
Yet by the mideighteenth century this fragility was no longer confined to the court.
To point to this fragility in relation to other masculinities is not to deny middle-class men's social power over women or the lower classes.
Research based statistics, if presented at all, frequently pertain to fragility fractures.
By supposing that there are infinite utilities, the concepts of robustness and fragility are rendered useless as ways of distinguishing between prudential decisions.
While seeming, temporarily, to have reinforced the mythology of manliness, did they not, in the end, bear witness to the extreme fragility of masculine identity?
Clinical symptoms comprise trauma-induced skin fragility and ectodermal dysplasia affecting hair, nails and sweat glands.
At the same time old problems, such as the fatal connection between social deprivation and family fragility, show few signs of going away.
The result was that the fragility of their alliance with the state was pitilessly exposed.
Maximal fragility would exclude the possibility of an event coming in more than one version.
They explain this selective fragility as the interaction of language with the impaired non-linguistic spatial system.
The nature of instability and fragility is partly what brings about the internal risk.
A second compromise would be to recognize the complementary roles of public health and clinical professionals toward the common objective of preventing fragility fractures.
Compromises must be negotiated between the different stakeholders and biomedical disciplines to achieve efficiency and accessibility in the reduction of fragility fractures.
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