atony

Borrowed from New Latin atonia, from Ancient Greek ἀτονία (atonía, “languor”), from ἄτονος (átonos, “languid”), from ἀ- (a-, “privative”) + τόνος (tónos, “accent”), from τείνειν (teínein, “to stretch”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈæt.ə.ni/

atony (usually uncountable, plural atonies)

1. Lack of muscle tone; flaccidity or atonia

• atonic

• “atony”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “atony”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “atony”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Ayton, Tonya, ayont, tonya