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

When continually resorted to by persons well nourished, but inactive, it is apt to produce a flaccidity of the system, and to encourage that relaxation of the veins which predisposes to excessive formation of fat.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various

The other viscera did not offer anything remarkable, except the paleness and flaccidity of their tissue.

From The Dog by Youatt, William

But Governments are beset by an even greater danger, which the learned might call "flaccidity" and the simple—"flabbiness."

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