flabbiness

English

Etymology

flabby +‎ -ness

Noun

flabbiness (countable and uncountable, plural flabbinesses)

1. 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?

   • 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:

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

Translations

being flabby

• Finnish: velttous (fi), vetelyys (fi)
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