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flaccidity
[ fla-sid-i-tee, flak- ]
noun
- 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.
- 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.
Word History and Origins
Origin of flaccidity1
Example Sentences
His very malevolence proceeded from a flaccidity which meanly envied the activities and enthusiasms of other men.
In "Jennie Gerhardt" there is no such flaccidity of structure, no such vacillation in aim, no such proliferation of episode.
Soon it would lose its paleness and flaccidity, become pink and slightly convex, pulsing with Rastignac's blood.
Besides, inquiries concerning the health of cow-punchers were not only superfluous, but bordered on flaccidity.
Besides, inquiries concerning the health of cow- punchers were not only superfluous, but bordered on flaccidity.
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