Meanings
- rareuncountableThe state or condition of being slablike.
In recent years we have come a long way from the austere slabness of the so-called functional or Bauhaus school and from such blind alleys as Le Corbusier's fancy as a young man that a home should be a "machine to live in."
1976, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Currency, and Housing, The Rebirth of the American City, page 301 more example
[…] there was something of youth and eagerness and tension all hidden behind the slabness of his features, the greyness of shape rather than of colour. It was a face so unremarkable in its physical detail that only a couple of small razor nicks stuck in the memory.
2015, Jim Williams, Farewell to Russia
Origin
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slabness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slabness
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