Other forms: frailties
Frailty is weakness of body or of character. The frailty of old age, human frailty, physical frailty.
In medicine it is now a measured state rather than a description — frailty scores predict how somebody will cope with illness or surgery better than age does, and treating it as a condition has changed care. Frailty, thy name is woman is Hamlet. Note frail; and that fragility is the same Latin word.
1nounfrailtyWeakness of body or of character.
“Despite her frailty, the old woman insisted on walking to church every Sunday.”
frailty is a weakness.
Old French frailete comes from Latin fragilitas, from frangere, to break. Fragile and fracture come from the same breaking.
Latin
fragilitās
Old French
fraileté
Middle English
frelete
English, today
frailty
From Middle English frelete, frailte, from Old French fraileté, from Latin fragilitās. by surface analysis, frail + -ty. a doublet of fragility.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA