单词 | flaccidity |
释义 | flaccidityn. 1. a. The quality or condition of being flaccid; want of stiffness or tension, limpness, looseness. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > weakness faintise1297 weaknessa1300 faintc1320 feebleness1340 languishingc1384 lamea1400 unferea1400 unferenessa1400 unwielda1400 impotence1406 imbecility?a1425 languisha1425 languoringa1438 unwieldness1437 faintnessa1440 impotency1440 infirmityc1440 debility1484 unlustiness1486 resolution1547 unwieldiness1575 languishment1576 infirmness1596 weakness1603 prostrationa1626 exolution1634 languidness1634 prosternation1650 faintingnessa1661 debilitude1669 flaccidity1676 atony1693 puniness1727 faintishness1733 adynamia1743 asthenia1802 adynamy1817 weakliness1826 tonelessness1873 atonicity1900 the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [noun] > flabbiness or flaccidity quagginess1653 flagginess1654 slappiness1668 flaccidity1676 flabbiness1727 flaccidness1727 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. vi. ii. 444 There is neither Fluxion nor Pain, but Flaccidity joyned with an Insensibility. 1725 G. Cheyne Ess. Health vii. 173 The Viscidity of the Juices and the Flaccidity of the Fibres, would..be removed. 1800 Young in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 91 62 The flaccidity of the eye after death. 1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 689 So long as no actually perceptible amount of flaccidity, i.e. of withering..takes place. b. Of immaterial things: Want of firmness and vigour; limpness, flabbiness. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > [noun] frailtyc1384 doting1440 barrenness1552 dottry1576 dotishness1598 feeble-mindedness1619 unfurniture1640 ungiftedness1647 flaccidity1778 weak-mindedness1854 flabbiness1883 touchedness1883 dottiness1885 barminess1896 dodderingness1915 moronism1922 the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [noun] > weakness of immaterial things weaknessa1300 feebleness1340 waterishnessa1603 faintnessa1716 flaccidity1778 saplessness1851 flabbiness1883 1778 R. Lowth Isaiah liii The Prophet would express the drowsiness and flaccidity..of his countrymen. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. ii. 31 The flaccidity of mind with which you attempt, against nature, to flog yourself up into an inclination to work in your garden. 1875 J. B. Lightfoot St. Paul's Epist. Colossians & Philemon 190 A vagueness, a flaccidity, of conception betrays itself in their language. 2. Used to render Italian flaccidezza, French flacherie: A disease of silkworms. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of insects > [noun] > disorders of silkworms flaccidity18.. gattine1825 grasserie1828 muscardine1846 pébrine1868 flacherie1885 18.. C. V. Riley Silk-culture 36 (Cent. Dict.) The worms are attacked by flaccidity. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1676 |
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