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Brittleness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The property by virtue of which a material is fractured without appreciable deformation by the application of load

n. The state of being brittle; aptness to break; fragility.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Aptness to break; fragility.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Instability; changeableness.

n. The property of breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture; frangibility: the opposite of toughness and tenacity.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. firm but easily broken

Word Usage

"Because he is young, is just two years distant from a brief career as a state legislator and has negligible national security experience, an Obama presidential candidacy could have a porcelain brittleness."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

breakableness

Hyponym

flakiness

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

fragility

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

unpunctuality hoarseness ductility spreadability incorrectness