flabbiness

  • 61flabby — adjective (flabbier, flabbiest) 1》 (of a part of a person s body) soft, loose, and fleshy. 2》 not tightly controlled and therefore ineffective: flabby prose. Derivatives flabbily adverb flabbiness noun Origin C17: alt. of earlier flappy …

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  • 62flaccidity — n.; (also flaccidness) Limberness, softness, laxity, limpness, relaxed condition, flabbiness, looseness …

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  • 63flabby — adjective informal 1 having soft, loose fat rather than strong muscles: She s getting old and flabby. 2 a flabby argument, excuse etc is weak and not effective flabbiness noun (U) …

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  • 64fatness — noun persons with varying degrees of fatness were chosen for the stress tests Syn: plumpness, stoutness, heaviness, chubbiness, portliness, rotundity, flabbiness, paunchiness; obesity, corpulence; informal tubbiness, pudginess Ant: thinness …

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  • 65obesity — noun businesses are developing programs to fight workers obesity Syn: fatness, corpulence, stoutness, portliness, plumpness, chubbiness, rotundity, flabbiness, grossness Ant: thinness, emaciation …

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  • 66wordy — wordy, verbose, prolix, diffuse, redundant can all mean using or marked by the use of more words than are necessary to express the thought. Wordy often carries no further implications, though it may suggest garrulousness or loquacity when the… …

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  • 67debility — n 1. weakness, feebleness, enfeeblement, lack of strength, Pathol. asthenia, Pathol. adynamia; infirmity, exhaustion, prostration, enervation; decrepitude, caducity, senility; emasculation, castration, unmanning, impotence, impuissance. 2.… …

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  • 68flaccidity — n flabbiness, unfirmness, softness, pendulousness, droopiness, limpness, quagginess …

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  • 69laxity — n 1. looseness, slackness, laxness, carelessness, heedlessness, mindlessness, inattention, unmindfulness, absent mindedness; neglect, negligence, dereliction, remissness; unrigorousness, noninterference, laissez faire, nonrestriction;… …

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  • 70looseness — n 1. slackness, laxity, laxness, carelessness, heedlessness, mindlessness, inattention; relaxation, loosening, offhandedness, casualness, easiness, indifference, nonconcern, insouciance; neglect, negligence, remissness, dereliction,… …

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