Limberness
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Property of being limber. uncountable
"1828, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, A Treatise on Gymnasticks (Die Deutsche Turnkunst, 1816), translated by Charles Butler, Northampton, Mass.: Simeon Butler, Section Three, p. 154, Every boy, or youth, who has not exercised before, is either entirely stiff, or if he possesses some limberness, he rarely understands to execute a regular movement."
Example
More examples"1828, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, A Treatise on Gymnasticks (Die Deutsche Turnkunst, 1816), translated by Charles Butler, Northampton, Mass.: Simeon Butler, Section Three, p. 154, Every boy, or youth, who has not exercised before, is either entirely stiff, or if he possesses some limberness, he rarely understands to execute a regular movement."
Etymology
From limber + -ness.
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