You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.
FRAILTY
frailty, vice
(noun) moral weakness
infirmity, frailty, debility, feebleness, frailness, valetudinarianism
(noun) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
frailty (countable and uncountable, plural frailties)
(uncountable) The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; weakness of resolution; liability to be deceived or seduced.
Synonyms: frailness, infirmity
A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.
Source: Wiktionary
Frail"ty, n.; pl. Frailties. Etym: [OE. frelete, freilte, OF. fraileté, fr. L. fragilitas. See Frail, a., and cf. Fragility.]
1. The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, [and] pities our weakness. Locke.
2. A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.
Syn.
– Frailness; fragility; imperfection; failing.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Word of the Day
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INTUITIVELY
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
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