flabbiness
noun
flabbiness is a noun meaning “The characteristic or quality of being flabby” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-B-B-I-N-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 91 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flabbiness is flabbinesses.
What does flabbiness mean?
noun
- 1
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?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flabbiness?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-flabbiness.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of flabbiness
- flabbinesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flabbiness?
Flabbiness appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does flabbiness come from?
From flabby + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).