Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being limp or flaccid; weak pliancy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being limp.

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  • noun Property of being limp.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a flabby softness

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Examples

  • And I don't think his overall limpness is just a case of his getting carried away playing his character's subtext.

    Lance Mannion: 2008

  • And I don't think his overall limpness is just a case of his getting carried away playing his character's subtext.

    Finding Amanda, losing Matthew Broderick 2008

  • How shall I spread-eagle myself under a boy, who will emit long before I can go off and forestall me in limpness of penis and clitoris; and leave a man who, when he taketh breath clippeth close and when he entereth goeth leisurely, and when he hath done, repeateth, and when he pusheth poketh hard, and as often as he withdraweth, returneth?’

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • While one part of her brain was absorbing the significance of that kind of limpness, Jane remembered that Henry Slocum had spent the morning displaying his new tweed overcoat to her mother.

    The Criminal C.O.D Taylor, Phoebe Atwood, 1909-1976 1940

  • It was raining steadily, and the atmosphere had that singular feeling of total relaxation and limpness which is only to be felt in the rain-ridden districts of Central Africa.

    With Edged Tools Henry Seton Merriman 1882

  • The warning signs triggering an exception report include struggling to breathe, nausea, vomiting, limpness and abnormal redness to the face.

    Extent of injuries to children in private jails revealed 2011

  • Empathy is a perfect word for them because it can be said with an implied flounce and limpness of wrist.

    Lance Mannion: 2009

  • Empathy is a perfect word for them because it can be said with an implied flounce and limpness of wrist.

    No empathy for empathy 2009

  • Something cracked and echoed in the middle of Ernie's skull, an internal sound that preceded a deep limpness.

    Summer Hits Kilean Kennedy 2011

  • Like so many ghosts haunting our inner most lives, we can't see them clearly and out limpid limpness forbids even a passing glance.

    A Mess 2010

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