frailty

1. 1.

   the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)

   Synonymsinfirmitydebilityfeeblenessfrailnessvaletudinarianism

   Broaderunfitness

   Narrowerastheniacachexia
2. 2.

   moral weakness

   Synonymsvice

   Broaderevil

Other forms of frailty

plural

frailties·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about frailty

What does frailty mean?

frailty means "the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in frailty?

frailty has 2 syllables: frail-ty. The stress falls on "frail". In IPA it is /ˈfɹeɪlti/.

What is another word for frailty?

Close synonyms include infirmity, debility, feebleness, frailness, valetudinarianism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is frailty a common word?

frailty is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.