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Meanings of flaccidity in English

Catalan
flacciditat
Spanish
flojedad

A flabby softness.

flacciditat
Synonyms
Examples for "limpness"
Examples for "limpness"
1
The left arm hung with that limpness which denotes a broken bone.
A Pagan of the Hills
2
Nicholas had none of the moral limpness and vacillating character of his predecessor.
Russia
3
He could look with righteous toleration upon the limpness of his fellow prisoner.
The Trail of the White Mule
4
Possibly his confidence is to be ascribed to the limpness of their attitudes.
The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
5
Her own was warm, and there was no limpness about it.
T. Tembarom
1
Austria was already blaming us for flabbiness and we could not flinch.
History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's...
2
I think I am changed in some stern spiritual way-stripped of flabbiness.
Carry On: Letters in War-Time
3
A careless, spasmodic hurrying and retarding leads only to flabbiness and inconsequence.
Essentials in Conducting
4
How did they rid themselves of their civilian flabbiness and acquire it?
The Glory of the Trenches
5
Now, Ben, there's nothing wrong with your bare body, barring a certain flabbiness.
The Gods Themselves
Usage of flaccidity in English
1
It sank, excused for the flaccidity by Nataly's want of common adventurous daring.
One of Our Conquerors — Volume 2
2
Besides, inquiries concerning the health of cow- punchers were not only superfluous, but bordered on flaccidity.
Heart of the West
3
His very malevolence proceeded from a flaccidity which meanly envied the activities and enthusiasms of other men.
English Literature: Modern
4
Nor need we fear that the result of this would be any flaccidity of conviction, or lethargy in act.
On Compromise
5
But Governments are beset by an even greater danger, which the learned might call "flaccidity" and the simple-"flabbiness.
Prime Ministers and Some Others: A Book of Reminiscences
6
The creaky bed, the unvarnished walls, and the rusty alarm clock, that ticked insistently, all added to the sense of flaccidity.
The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American...
7
After four years of flaccidity it was pleasant to be distended again, but already he felt more filled than he had ever been before.
The Soul of a Bishop
8
The symptoms of produce deterioration include discoloration, increased oxidative browning at cut surfaces, flaccidity as a result of loss of water, and decreased nutritional value.
Pubmed
9
Flaccidity of all kinds is his bugbear.
The Guardian
Frequent collocations
Translations for flaccidity
Flaccidity through the time