FRAILTY
Dictionary entry overview: What does frailty mean?
• FRAILTY (noun)
The noun FRAILTY has 2 senses:
1. the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
2. moral weakness
Familiarity information: FRAILTY used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• FRAILTY (noun)
Meaning:
The state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
debility; feebleness; frailness; frailty; infirmity; valetudinarianism
Hypernyms ("frailty" is a kind of...):
bad condition; poor shape; 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)
Meaning:
Moral weakness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
vice; frailty
Hypernyms ("frailty" is a kind of...):
evil; evilness (the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice)
