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Noun: frailty  frey(-u)l-tee
  1. Physical or mental weakness, especially due to old age
    "His frailty required him to use a walker";
    - infirmity, debility, feebleness, frailness, valetudinarianism
     
  2. Moral weakness
    "Gambling was his particular frailty";
    - vice

Derived forms: frailties

Type of: evil, evilness, ill, softness, unfitness

Encyclopedia: Frailty, thy name is woman