{
  "id": "fragility.easily-broken",
  "term": "fragility",
  "sense": "easily-broken",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 16,
  "domain": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "A state where a small change in space or energy causes a thing to stop persisting.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "energy.capacity",
      "persist.continue",
      "change.process"
    ],
    "interaction": "When small changes in space or energy disrupt a thing's ability to persist, fragility emerges.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "sensitivity to small disturbances",
      "sudden loss of persistence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "robustness.resilient",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "Fragility is the opposite of resilience."
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "fragile",
    "fragiler",
    "fragilest",
    "fragility"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-fragility.easily-broken"
}