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Definition of Breakableness
1. Noun. The consistency of something that breaks under pressure.
Specialized synonyms: Brittleness, Crispiness, Crispness, Crumbliness, Friability
Attributes: Breakable, Unbreakable
Derivative terms: Breakable
Antonyms: Unbreakableness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breakableness
Literary usage of Breakableness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1901)
"The quality of breakableness is thus a second factor in fracture of bones.
In the same way the second factor in tuberculosis is the animal's inability to ..."
2. The Book of the Twelve Prophets Commonly Called the Minor by George Adam Smith (1896)
"... and breakableness of the very ground of life. Of course, as we shall see, this
was due to the prophet's knowledge of the moral explosiveness of society ..."
3. The Social Life of the Hebrews by Edward Day (1901)
"... and breakableness of the very ground of life."1 Surely such an affliction
would at the least furnish a man with Amos' sensitiveness to nature the basal ..."
4. The Complete Works by John Ruskin (1894)
"... —breakableness to bits, as opposed to wood, which can be sawn or rent, but
not shattered with a hammer, and to metal, which is tough and malleable. ..."
5. Modern Painters by John Ruskin (1906)
"... —breakableness to bits, as opposed to wood, which can be sawn or rent, but
not shattered with a hammer, and to metal, which is tough and malleable. ..."
6. Modern Painters by John Ruskin (1872)
"... —breakableness to bits, as opposed to wood, which 1 It is in these subtle
purples that even the more elaborate passages of the earlier drawings are ..."
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