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 George William Erskine Russell
Nor need we fear that the result of this would be any flaccidity of conviction, or lethargy in act.
From On Compromise by John Morley
In the weak there is languor, faintness, flaccidity of the breasts, general depression, and pains in the back and loins.
From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous