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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Fragility \Fra*gil"i*ty\, n. [L. fragilitas: cf. F.
     fragilit['e]. Cf. {Frailty}.]
     1. The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness;
        frangibility. --Bacon.
  
     2. Weakness; feebleness.
  
              An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is
              almost essential to it [beauty].      --Burke.
  
     3. Liability to error and sin; frailty. [Obs.]
  
              The fragility and youthful folly of Qu. Fabius.
                                                    --Holland.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fragility
       n 1: quality of being easily damaged or destroyed [syn: {breakability}]
       2: lack of physical strength [syn: {delicacy}]

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