flaccidity
Americannoun
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the state or condition of being soft and limp; flabbiness or lack of firmness.
This therapy also tightens the skin by helping to reduce flaccidity, lift sagging tissues, and restore skin tone and structure.
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lack of strength or force; weakness.
Assuring other nations that the United States will exercise its power responsibly, sparingly, virtuously, and in accordance with international norms is not a sign of moral flaccidity.
Etymology
Origin of flaccidity
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Evaluating the parlous flaccidity of our schools, James Traub thinks we’re in big trouble—but he also finds reason for hope.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
The lack of muscle tone, known as hypotonicity or flaccidity, may indicate that the LMN is not conducting action potentials that will keep a basal level of acetylcholine in the neuromuscular junction.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The creaky bed, the unvarnished walls, and the rusty alarm clock, that ticked insistently, all added to the sense of flaccidity.
From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
We could hardly have a more marked contrast than that between the inchoate flaccidity of the nebulosity in Fig.
From Thought-Forms by C. W. (Charles Webster) Leadbeater
The hasty swallowing of unmasticated food, too large a bolus, defective or artificial teeth, flaccidity of tissues, and spasm of the cricopharyngeus muscle, are etiologic factors.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
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