frailty
noun
[ ˈfreɪlti ]
• the condition of being weak and delicate.
• "the increasing frailty of old age"
Similar:
infirmity,
infirmness,
weakness,
weakliness,
feebleness,
enfeeblement,
debility,
incapacity,
impairment,
indisposition,
fragility,
delicacy,
slightness,
puniness,
illness,
sickness,
sickliness,
ill health,
decrepitude,
dodderiness,
shakiness,
weediness,
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘weakness in morals’): from Old French frailete, from Latin fragilitas, from fragilis (see fragile).
