squishiness
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7.4
- noun
- /ˈskwɪʃiˌnɛs/
- Informal
- The squishiness of the policy left many people feeling uncertain about its effectiveness.
Examples
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The manager's squishiness in enforcing deadlines caused confusion among the team members.
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Critics argue that the squishiness in their judgment makes them vulnerable to making poor decisions.
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If if there was like a squishiness meter, then they both kind of appear on the same level.
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So it would be natural to have learned that it makes more sense to exploit your opponent's rigid ideology than his general squishiness.
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Michael helped reiterate what I already knew: the book isn't about romance and squishiness.
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Synonyms
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4.1
An unsteady trembling of the body or voice when you cannot keep them still
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5.3
A lack of strictness or exactness in how something is done
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4.1
Soft and loose like a stuffed animal with no firm shape
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8.9
Not being able to make firm decisions
Antonyms
How Firm
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Squishiness is also used in a figurative way from the verb squish, 'to press and make soft'. A helpful way to remember this is to imagine a rule or person that is soft like squashed fruit — not firm or strict — so squishiness means 'a lack of firmness or decisiveness'.