frangible
adjective
easily broken; breakable.
frangibility
-
a word derived from
frangible.
Example Sentences
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Security Council meeting, or a small old-growth forest of rustic redwood, there’s no mistaking his idiosyncratic mien, redolent of pine and frangibility.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2016
In iron clad Sometimes thy feature roughen to the sight, And oft transparent art thou seen in glass, Portending frangibility.
From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings
The history of rachitis, of melanosis, and of osteoporosis, as related to an abnormal frangibility of the bones, is a part of our common medical knowledge.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
Brittleness -- N. brittleness &c. adj.; fragility, friability, frangibility, fissibility†; house of cards, house of glass.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
