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Definition of frailty : 1. A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.
2. The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced.

Synonyms:

decrepitude, wobbliness, unsubstantiality, failing, strength, strong, shakiness, fault, defect, delicateness, weakliness, puniness, shortcoming, insubstantiality, tenuity, imperfection, flaccidity, weak point, fragileness, flimsiness, vice, valetudinarianism, unsoundness, better, foible, help, softness, frailness, susceptibility

crispness, brittleness, fragility, delicacy

feebleness, impotence, debility, anemia, infirmity, weakness, powerlessness

Usage examples:

• Those who confide in their own strength are in great danger of being tempted so far as to be constrained to acknowledge their frailty. - "The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.)", Margaret, Queen Of Navarre.
• She had wrecked her love to no purpose, for her mother must have been weighed down by the imagination of her daughter's frailty. - "Carnival", Compton Mackenzie.
• She reached the villa which had been engaged by Story's aid, with the sense of " a peculiar frailty of being." - "Robert Browning", Edward Dowden.