flaccidity

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Evaluating the parlous flaccidity of our schools, James Traub thinks we’re in big trouble—but he also finds reason for hope.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

The lack of muscle tone, known as hypotonicity or flaccidity, may indicate that the LMN is not conducting action potentials that will keep a basal level of acetylcholine in the neuromuscular junction.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Highly placed and highly paid flaccidity then reigned supreme, and produced its inevitable result.

From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by Russell, George William Erskine

This delight not in action or in emotion arising from action but in passivity of suffering is only one aspect of a certain mental flaccidity in grain.

From English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge by Mair, G. H. (George Herbert)

As I read over again, with a fresh mind, the last chapter, I am struck by the opposition of states which seem best to fit a weed for a weed's work,—stubbornness, namely, and flaccidity.

From Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John