What is another word for flabbiness?

Pronunciation: [flˈabɪnəs] (IPA)

Flabbiness refers to a state of being soft, loose, or lacking firmness. It is often associated with an unhealthy lifestyle or lack of exercise. Some common synonyms for the word flabbiness include slackness, sag, droopiness, looseness, and flaccidity. Other words that can be used interchangeably with flabbiness include flimsiness, weakness, laxity, limpness, and softness. These synonyms describe a lack of muscle tone, strength, or resilience. While flabbiness is often used to describe physical characteristics, it can also be used metaphorically to describe things like writing or thinking that lacks structure, precision, or firmness.

What are the hypernyms for Flabbiness?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Flabbiness?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for flabbiness (as nouns)

Usage examples for Flabbiness

Or if I find them mounting to his head," I says, "or striking anyways cold to his stomach or leading to anything approaching flabbiness in his legs, the result will be the same, but, Major, you are a clever man and have seen much, and you love the child and are his own godfather, and if you feel a confidence in trying, try."
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
He is still stout, but all the flabbiness has dropped from him; gone too is his pomposity; his eye is clear, brown his skin; he could leap a gate.
"The Admirable Crichton"
J. M. Barrie
We have seen how the American, Beard, was inspired by the idea that "nerves" represented a loss of tone, a flabbiness, weakness and softness of the nerves, to coin the word neurasthenia.
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.

Famous quotes with Flabbiness

  • The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That — with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease.
    William James
  • Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits—the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.
    Theodore Roosevelt
  • Inefficiency is a curse; and no good intention atones for weakness of will and flabbiness of moral, mental, and physical fiberno intellectual cleverness, no ability to achieve material prosperity, can atone for the lack of the great moral qualities which are the surest foundation of national might.Righteousness exalteth a nation
    Theodore Roosevelt

Word of the Day

Regional Arterial Infusion
The term "regional arterial infusion" refers to the delivery of medication or other therapeutic agents to a specific area of the body via an artery. Antonyms for this term might in...