The difference between Fragility and Tenacity

When used as nouns, fragility means the condition or quality of being fragile, whereas tenacity means the quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose.


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  1. Fragility as a noun:

    The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.

  2. Fragility as a noun:

    Weakness; feebleness.

  3. Fragility as a noun (obsolete):

    Liability to error and sin; frailty.

  1. Tenacity as a noun:

    The quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose; tenaciousness.

  2. Tenacity as a noun:

    The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force, as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.

  3. Tenacity as a noun:

    The effect of this attraction, cohesiveness.

  4. Tenacity as a noun:

    The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity.

  5. Tenacity as a noun (physics):

    The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.