friability

English

Etymology

From French friabilité.

Pronunciation

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Noun

friability (countable and uncountable, plural friabilities)

1. The quality of being friable, or easily broken, crumbled, or reduced to powder; friableness.

   Antonym: nonfriability

Translations

quality of being friable

• Azerbaijani: boşluq (az), kövrəklik
• Bulgarian: ронливост (bg) f (ronlivost), трошливост (bg) f (trošlivost)
• French: friabilité (fr) f
• German: Mürbe f
• Macedonian: ро́нливост f (rónlivost), тро́шливост f (tróšlivost)
• Romanian: friabilitate (ro) f
• Russian: рыхлость (ru) f (ryxlostʹ)
• Spanish: friabilidad f
• Swedish: luckerhet (sv) c
• Turkish: gevreklik (tr)

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “friability”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.