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Frangibility

noun
1.
Quality of being easily damaged or destroyed.  Synonyms: breakability, fragility, frangibleness.






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"Frangibility" Quotes from Famous Books



... thought, nicer to touch than an egg. It was cool without being chill, and took the warmth of one's hand flatteringly soon, as if it liked to do so, yet kept its freshness; it was smooth without being glossy, mat as a pearl, and as delightful to roll in the hand; and of an exquisite, alarming frangibility that gave it, in its small way, that flavour which belongs to pleasures that are dogged by the danger of a violent end. As elaborately as this she had felt about it; for she was silly, as poets are, and ...
— The Judge • Rebecca West



Words linked to "Frangibility" :   frangible, vulnerability, fragility, breakability, frangibleness



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