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flimsiness

noun

flimsiness is a noun meaning “The quality of being flimsy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-I-M-S-I-N-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flimsiness is flimsinesses.

What does flimsiness mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The quality of being flimsy.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of flimsiness

  • flimsinesses plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is flimsiness?

Flimsiness appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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 flimsiness come from?

From flimsy + -ness.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).