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flimsiness|ˈflɪmzɪnɪs|
[f. flimsy a. + -ness.]
The quality of being flimsy.
1727in Bailey vol. II. a 1763 Shenstone Ess. Writing & Bks. Wks. (1764) 173 A certain flimziness of poetry. 1816Keatinge Trav. (1817) II. 81 Certainly the materials are spun out almost to flimziness. 1883Law Times 29 Sept. 362/1 The courts..were run up with a speed and flimsiness of construction which would do credit to a speculative suburban builder.
concr.1871R. Ellis Catullus lxviii. 51 The spider, aloft her silk-slight flimsiness hanging. |