flabbiness
Lack of firmness
Flabbiness is the quality of being soft and loose rather than firm.
It describes flesh that lacks muscle tone: the flabbiness of his upper arms.
The word extends to anything lacking vigor or discipline: a flabbiness in the writing, intellectual flabbiness.
Hanging down limply
- droopyHanging or bending downward
- slackAbsence of tautness
- floppyLacking rigidity, bending easily
- pendulousHanging so as to swing
limp · dangling · lax · hanging · sagging · flaccid · wobbly · jiggling
Wasting from disuse
- weaknessDeficiency in force
- laxityLack of strictness
- saggingBending downward weakly
- deteriorationProcess of declining quality
wasting · enervation · debility · feebleness · degeneration · softening · slackening · diminishment
Soft and easily compressed
- doughySoft like raw bread
- fleshyThick with soft tissue
- spongySoft and absorbent
- mushySoft or saccharine
pudgy · cushiony · plush · squashy · blubbery · gelatinous · jiggly · pillowy
Characterized by much sitting
- deconditionedLost physical conditioning
- untonedLacking muscular definition
- unexercisedNot put into action
- inactiveNot currently functioning
nonathletic · deskbound · overweight · obesity · lethargic · sluggish · torpid · slothful
saggy
Hanging down limply
pendulous · limp · dangling · lax · hanging · sagging · flaccid · wobbly · jiggling · drooping
atrophy
Wasting from disuse
deterioration · wasting · enervation · debility · feebleness · degeneration · softening · slackening · diminishment · decline
squishy
Soft and easily compressed
mushy · pudgy · cushiony · plush · squashy · blubbery · gelatinous · jiggly · pillowy · puffy
sedentary
Characterized by much sitting
- deconditionedLost physical conditioning
- untonedLacking muscular definition
- unexercisedNot put into action
inactive · nonathletic · deskbound · overweight · obesity · lethargic · sluggish · torpid · slothful · indolent
- writing flawstypos, spelling errors, plot hole, plot holes, cliche
- flexibilitystretch, elastic, bendy, stretchy, bendable
flabbinessfirmness
Resistance to deformation
tautness · tightness · muscularity · solidity · hardness
flabby, flabbergast, flabbergasted, flabbergasting, flabbily, flabbier, flabbiest