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

We could hardly have a more marked contrast than that between the inchoate flaccidity of the nebulosity in Fig.

From Thought-Forms by Leadbeater, C. W. (Charles Webster)

The creaky bed, the unvarnished walls, and the rusty alarm clock, that ticked insistently, all added to the sense of flaccidity.

From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

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 Gozzi, Count Carlo