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FRANGIBILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does frangibility mean?
• FRANGIBILITY (noun)
The noun FRANGIBILITY has 1 sense:
1. quality of being easily damaged or destroyed
Familiarity information: FRANGIBILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Quality of being easily damaged or destroyed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
breakability; fragility; frangibility; frangibleness
Hypernyms ("frangibility" is a kind of...):
vulnerability (susceptibility to injury or attack)
Derivation:
frangible (capable of being broken)
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