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单词 flimsiness
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flimsinessn.

Brit. /ˈflɪmzɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈflɪmzinᵻs/
Etymology: < flimsy adj. + -ness suffix.
The quality of being flimsy.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [noun] > state of being limited in amount > scantiness or meagreness
scantnessc1386
parcity1509
tenuity1535
scantiness1567
bareness1580
barrenness1587
exiguity1604
leanness1612
meagreness1622
thinness1623
jejuneness1626
macilencya1631
narrowness1647
straitnessa1704
flimsinessa1763
threadbareness1771
poorness1782
skimpiness1879
threadbarity1892
the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > [noun]
unfastness1398
debility1570
insolidity1578
unsoundness1605
tenderness1708
flimsiness1816
immateriality1886
1727 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II
a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) II. 173 A certain flimziness of poetry.
1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) II. 81 Certainly the materials are spun out almost to flimziness.
1883 Law 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.
concrete.1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxviii. 51 The spider, aloft her silk-slight flimsiness hanging.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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