Fragility may refer to:
* A property of a solid, related to
brittleness
A material is brittle if, when subjected to stress (physics), stress, it fractures with little elastic deformation and without significant plastic deformation. Brittle materials absorb relatively little energy prior to fracture, even those of h ...
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Fragility (glass physics), a concept to characterize viscous slow down during glass formation
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''Fragility'' (film), a 2016 Swedish documentary
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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 respecti ...
, a 1999 concert tour by Nine Inch Nails
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Financial fragility, the vulnerability of a financial system to a financial crisis
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White fragility, defensive responses by white people to racial stress
See also
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Fragility Index
The fragility index is a statistical metric used primarily in the medical literature to assess study results. It denotes the minimum number of subjects whose status would have to change from a non-event to an event in order to convert a statisti ...
, in medical literature, a statistical metric used to assess test results
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Fragile States Index
The Fragile States Index (FSI; formerly the Failed States Index) is an annual report mainly published and supported by the American think tank Fund for Peace. The FSI is also published by the American magazine ''Foreign Policy'' from 2005 to 201 ...
, an annual report assessing states' vulnerability to conflict or collapse
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Antifragility
Antifragility is a property of systems in which they increase in capability to thrive as a result of stressors, shocks, volatility, noise, mistakes, faults, attacks, or failures. The concept was developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book, '' An ...
, a property of systems in which they increase in capability to thrive as a result of stressors
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