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
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 G. H. (George Herbert) Mair
In its most extreme form there is complete flaccidity of all the voluntary muscles, and relaxation of some sphincters.
From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by John T. (John Thompson) MacCurdy
Who has not marked, where the full cheek should be, Incipient lines of lank flaccidity, Lymphatic pallor where the pink should glow, And where the throb of transport, pulses low?
From Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
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