flabbiness

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noun

The characteristic or quality of being flabby

“April 1891, Robert Louis Stevenson, letter to Edmund Goose There were two, or perhaps three, flabbinesses of style which (in your work) amazed me. Am I right in thinking you were a shade bored over the last chapters?”

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounflabbiness (countable and uncountable, plural flabbinesses)

plural flabbinesses

  1. countableuncountableThe characteristic or quality of being flabby

    April 1891, Robert Louis Stevenson, letter to Edmund Goose There were two, or perhaps three, flabbinesses of style which (in your work) amazed me. Am I right in thinking you were a shade bored over the last chapters?

    1 more example

    Woona had silently and swiftly backed away; and her ebon face, Ursula saw, had changed into leaden flabbiness with some horrible fear.

    1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 279

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna flabby softness

Broader

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Finnish velttous, vetelyys
  • velttousbeing flabby
  • vetelyysbeing flabby
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Chicago

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