flaccidity
Example Sentences
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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
If so, flaccidity will stand revealed as what in truth it has always been—the one quality which neutralizes all other gifts, and makes its possessor incapable of governing.
From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by Russell, George William Erskine
Nor need we fear that the result of this would be any flaccidity of conviction, or lethargy in act.
From On Compromise by Morley, John
We could hardly have a more marked contrast than that between the inchoate flaccidity of the nebulosity in Fig.
From Thought-Forms by Leadbeater, C. W. (Charles Webster)
