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limberness

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Property of being limber.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

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.
  • His limberness was so great he could kiss his knee without bending it.

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History

Etymology

Etymology tree English limber Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English limberness From limber + -ness.