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FRAILTY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Moral weakness
Synonyms:
frailty; vice
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("frailty" is a kind of...):
evil; evilness (the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
Synonyms:
debility; feebleness; frailness; frailty; infirmity; valetudinarianism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("frailty" is a kind of...):
softness; unfitness (poor physical condition; being out of shape or out of condition (as from a life of ease and luxury))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "frailty"):
asthenia; astheny (an abnormal loss of strength)
cachexia; cachexy; wasting (any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease)
Context examples:
These novel results showed that cognitive frailty was associated with increased mortality more markedly in the inactive older adults and, more importantly, being physically active may reduce the mortality risk among cognitively frail individuals by 36%.
(Engaging in physical activity could reduce long-term mortality, University of Granada)
He did not conceive of her body as a body, subject to the ills and frailties of bodies.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He was the fellow who had lived and thrilled and loved; who had been easy-going and tolerant of the frailties of life; who had served in the forecastle, wandered in strange lands, and led his gang in the old fighting days.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
To see moral grandeur rising out of cesspools of iniquity; to rise himself and first glimpse beauty, faint and far, through mud-dripping eyes; to see out of weakness, and frailty, and viciousness, and all abysmal brutishness, arising strength, and truth, and high spiritual endowment—
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
