frailty
weakness or the condition of being frail
Root
- fract / frag: break, break back, shatter, or become breakable
Other words with the fract / frag root
Frailty is breakable weakness as a state: the body or system cannot bear much pressure.
The novel treated human frailty with sadness rather than contempt.
Frail, fragile, fragment, and fracture show the family in different spellings. Frailty is the condition: strength has thinned until pressure can break it.