Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Fragility

Fragility , noun

[Latin fragilitas: compare French fragilité. Compare 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. [Obsolete]
The fragility and youthful folly of Qu. Fabius. — Holland