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mollesse [mɔlεs]feminine noun[de marché] sluggishness• il est d'une mollesse ! he's so slow!* * *mɔlɛs1) ( caractère moelleux) softness2) ( de chair) flabbiness; ( de trait du visage) weakness3) ( de personne) listlessness; ( de poignée de main) limpness4) ( manque d'autorité)la mollesse du gouvernement face aux manifestants — the government's failure to stand up to the demonstrators
5) fig (de personne, réponse) lack of conviction; (d'idée, de style) woolliness; ( d'opposition) weakness; ( de croissance) sluggishness* * *mɔlɛs nfSee:1) [matelas] softness3) [résistance, protestation] feebleness* * *mollesse nf1 ( caractère moelleux) softness;2 ( manque de tenue) ( de chair) flabbiness; ( de cheveux) limpness; ( de trait du visage) weakness;3 ( apathie) (de personne, d'élève) listlessness; ( de poignée de main) limpness; mollesse d'une démarche languid way of moving;4 ( manque d'autorité) la mollesse d'un père envers ses enfants a father's soft treatment of his children; la mollesse de qn face à qn sb's failure to stand up to sb; il a réagi avec trop de mollesse face à la crise he was too soft in handling the crisis;5 ( manque de conviction) (de personne, réponse) lack of conviction; ( d'idéologie) laxness; (d'idée, de style) woolliness; (d'opposition, interprétation, de discours) weakness; (de reprise, croissance) sluggishness.[mɔlɛs] nom féminin1. [d'une substance, d'un objet] softness[des chairs] flabbiness[d'une poignée de main] limpness2. [d'un relief] soft shape[de contours]c'est la mollesse des parents/de l'opposition qui est en cause parental laxness/the opposition's spinelessness is to blame
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