frailness
- n the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
- Dykes's one "complaint" about his little lefthander is made with a wide grin: "The only trouble with Shantz is his frailness.
- Failing in his lifelong search for a girl who combined frailness with sensuality, he built those qualities into a procession of operatic heroines Manon Lescaut, Mimi in Bohme .