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

Broken through the upper part of the stem, the listless flower drooped its petals towards the earth, and seemed to mourn their chastity, already sullied by the wan flaccidity of decay.

From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Garnett, Richard

But Governments are beset by an even greater danger, which the learned might call "flaccidity" and the simple—"flabbiness."

From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by Russell, George William Erskine

This delight not in action or in emotion arising from action but in passivity of suffering is only one aspect of a certain mental flaccidity in grain.

From English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge by Mair, G. H. (George Herbert)