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English
Etymology
From flabby + -ness.
Noun
flabbiness (countable and uncountable, plural flabbinesses)
- 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?
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:Woona had silently and swiftly backed away; and her ebon face, Ursula saw, had changed into leaden flabbiness with some horrible fear.
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