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
Example Sentences
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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
His very malevolence proceeded from a flaccidity which meanly envied the activities and enthusiasms of other men.
From English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge by Mair, G. H. (George Herbert)
The other viscera did not offer anything remarkable, except the paleness and flaccidity of their tissue.
From The Dog by Youatt, William
If former plumpness have left the previously-filled cellular tissue and expanded integuments enfeebled; because, that constitutes flaccidity.
From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Walker, Alexander
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