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
If so, flaccidity will stand revealed as what in truth it has always been—the one quality which neutralizes all other gifts, and makes its possessor incapable of governing.
From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by George William Erskine Russell
People noticed that he repeated himself; they discovered poverty of ideas, flaccidity, and faults of construction in his later pieces.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Count Carlo Gozzi
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
