different between flabby vs flabbiness

English

Etymology

From a variant of flappy, from flap (“to hang loose”). Compare English dialectal flapsy (“flabby”), Middle Dutch flabbe (“a slap in the face; a fan-blade; a hair ribbon; a wagging tongue”), Middle Low German flabbe (“a gaping mouth; a chatterbox”), Danish flab (“the jaw; cheeks; a malapert”), Swedish flabb, fläff (“the hanging underlip of an animal; guffaw; driveller”), German Flabbe (“a gob; muzzle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flæb.i/
• Rhymes: -æbi

Adjective

flabby (comparative flabbier, superlative flabbiest)

1. Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid.
2. (of wine) Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness.
3. (of writing, etc.) overwrought.
4. (mathematics) Which forms a surjection from the domain to every open subset of the codomain.

   a flabby sheaf on a paracompact space

Synonyms

• (having a slight lack of acidity): flat

Antonyms

• (yielding to the touch): muscled, taut

Translations

English

Etymology

flabby +? -ness

Noun

flabbiness (countable and uncountable, plural flabbinesses)

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?

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