flabbiness

noun

flabbiness

noun

Etymology From flabby + -ness.

1

The characteristic or quality of being flabby

  • April 1891, Robert Louis Stevenson, letter to Edmund Goose There were two, or perhaps three, flabbinesses of style which (in your work) amazed me. Am I right in thinking you were a shade bored over the last chapters?
  • Woona had silently and swiftly backed away; and her ebon face, Ursula saw, had changed into leaden flabbiness with some horrible fear.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 279:

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