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FLABBINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does flabbiness mean?
• FLABBINESS (noun)
The noun FLABBINESS has 1 sense:
1. a flabby softness
Familiarity information: FLABBINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A flabby softness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
flabbiness; flaccidity; limpness
Hypernyms ("flabbiness" is a kind of...):
softness (the property of giving little resistance to pressure and being easily cut or molded)
Derivation:
flabby (out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance)
Context examples
I have spoken of the impression of flabbiness which this man Blessington conveyed.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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