Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

flabbiness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.04 in modern English

Syllables: flab-bi-ness
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The characteristic or quality of being flabby

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

Etymology tree English flabby Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English flabbiness From flabby + -ness.

Usage

Inflected Forms

flabbinesses (plural)

Synonyms

limpness flaccidity

Questions

What does flabbiness mean?: The characteristic or quality of being flabby
Where does flabbiness come from?: Etymology tree English flabby Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English flabbiness From flabby + -ness.

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