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Antonyms for flimsiness

Grammar : Noun
Spell : flim-zee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈflɪm zi

Definition of flimsiness

Origin :
  • 1702, of unknown origin, perhaps a metathesis of film (n.) "gauzy covering" + -y (2). Related: Flimsily; flimsiness.
  • noun weakness
Example sentences :
  • They would fall to pieces, in good time, of their own flimsiness.
  • Extract from : « Rose MacLeod » by Alice Brown
  • The flimsiness of their thinking and living returned to them again in all its paltry reality.
  • Extract from : « The Adventures of a Widow » by Edgar Fawcett
  • The material is very cheap, cheap to the point of flimsiness, and the making—heaven help you—it is thrown together.
  • Extract from : « Nasby in Exile » by David R. Locke
  • Her own flimsiness and falseness, the immense distance from anything like perfect union.
  • Extract from : « The Confounding of Camelia » by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
  • Our modern revivalists profess 158to despise the flimsiness of the first attempts in this direction.
  • Extract from : « Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) » by Leslie Stephen
  • He said that even now very few people realised the flimsiness of the credit system by which the modern world was sustained.
  • Extract from : « Mr. Britling Sees It Through » by H. G. Wells
  • The house itself was plain, and both inside and out had a certain aspect of flimsiness.
  • Extract from : « Amy in Acadia » by Helen Leah Reed
  • The bungalow was a very solid one, but the partition walls of the rooms were almost jerry-built in their flimsiness.
  • Extract from : « The Lock And Key Library » by Various
  • As a rule, the house is of but one story, and its flimsiness comes from two reasons, both very good ones.
  • Extract from : « Peeps at Many Lands: Japan » by John Finnemore
  • Bitterly cold weather suddenly arrived, however, which made us aware of the flimsiness of the French huts in which we dwelt.
  • Extract from : « The Seventh Manchesters » by S. J. Wilson

Synonyms for flimsiness

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