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flabbiness

flabbiness noun: the characteristic or quality of being flabby.

Noun

flabbiness (countable and uncountable, plural flabbinesses)

  1. The characteristic or quality of being flabby
    • April 1891, Robert Louis Stevenson, letter to Edmund Goose
      There were two, or perhaps three, flabbinesses of style which (in your work) amazed me. Am I right in thinking you were a shade bored over the last chapters?
    • Woona had silently and swiftly backed away; and her ebon face, Ursula saw, had changed into leaden flabbiness with some horrible fear.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 279

flabbiness meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

flabbiness in Tamil

கொழுப்புச்சதை, கொழுகொழுப்பு, சளிப்பு

flabbiness in Malayalam

plumpness, fat, fatness
കൊഴുപ്പ്, ചത, തുടിപ്പ്, തുടുപ്പ്, മേദസ്സ്, വണ്ണം

Forms of flabbiness

pluralflabbinesses

Origin of flabbiness

From flabby + -ness.

Questions about flabbiness

What does flabbiness mean?
Flabbiness means the characteristic or quality of being flabby.
What is flabbiness in Tamil?
Flabbiness in Tamil is கொழுப்புச்சதை, கொழுகொழுப்பு, சளிப்பு. See Flabbiness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is flabbiness?
Flabbiness is a noun.
What is the plural of flabbiness?
The plural of flabbiness is flabbinesses.

Words near flabbiness in the dictionary

  1. flabberghasting
  2. flabberghasts
  3. flabbier
  4. flabbiest
  5. flabbily
  6. flabbiness
  7. flabbinesses
  8. flabby
  9. flabel
  10. flabella
  11. flabellate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flabbiness (page history and authors); flabbiness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); flabbiness (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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