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
Besides, inquiries concerning the health of cow- punchers were not only superfluous, but bordered on flaccidity.
From Heart of the West by O. Henry
In "Jennie Gerhardt" there is no such flaccidity of structure, no such vacillation in aim, no such proliferation of episode.
From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
His very malevolence proceeded from a flaccidity which meanly envied the activities and enthusiasms of other men.
From English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge by G. H. (George Herbert) Mair
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