brittleness

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Fragility

Nouns

1. brittleness, fragility, friability, breakability, frangibility, frailty; crispness, delicacy, crumbliness; vulnerability. See powderiness, weakness.

2. (something brittle) glass, porcelain, etc.; eggshell, shortbread; house of cards.

Verbs — break, crack, snap, split, shiver, splinter, shatter, fracture; bust, fall to pieces, break up, disintegrate, fragment; crisp.

Adjectives — brittle, frangible, friable, fragile, breakable, frail, gimcrack, shivery, splintery; splitting; eggshell, delicate; crisp, crumbly, short, brittle as glass, glassy, vitreous.

Antonyms, See coherence.