Fragility may refer to: * A property of a solid, related to

brittleness A material is brittle if, when subjected to stress, it fractures with little elastic deformation and without significant plastic deformation. Brittle materials absorb relatively little energy prior to fracture, even those of high strength. Bre ...

Fragility (glass physics) In glass physics, fragility characterizes how rapidly the dynamics of a material slows down as it is cooled toward the glass transition: materials with a higher fragility have a relatively narrow glass transition temperature range, while those ...

, a concept to characterize viscous slow down during glass formation * Fragility of financial systems, an idea developed by scholar

Nassim Nicholas Taleb Nassim Nicholas Taleb (; alternatively ''Nessim ''or'' Nissim''; born 12 September 1960) is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist whose work concerns problems of randomness, ...

Fragility Tour The Fragility Tour was a concert tour in support of industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails' '' The Fragile'' album, which took place in late 1999, running until mid-2000, and was broken into two major legs, Fragility v1.0 and Fragility v2.0 respec ...

, a 1999 concert tour by rock band Nine Inch Nails * ''Fragility'' (film), a 2016 Swedish documentary film * Fragility (cultural studies) *

White fragility White defensiveness is a term to describe defensive responses by white people to discussions of societal discrimination, structural racism, and white privilege. The term has been applied to characterize the responses of white people to portrayal ...

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