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

Nor need we fear that the result of this would be any flaccidity of conviction, or lethargy in act.

From On Compromise by Morley, John

What gives him that flaccidity, that pallor of the cheeks where the skin was once as tight as a drum and bursting with the good sound health of a man without a care?

From Ursula by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

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 MacCurdy, John T. (John Thompson)