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the universe's gentlest defense, where giving way is how soft things survive the hard ones.
means The quality of being soft, yielding, and pleasantly compressible under pressure, springing back when released.
from From "squish," a word that does what it says — an imitative or "echoic" coinage, meaning it was born from the sound itself, the wet little smush of something soft pressed flat. English loves these squelchy s-words (squash, squelch, squeeze, squirt), a family bound less by shared roots than by shared mouthfeel. The "-iness" is the ordinary suffix that turns a quality into a noun, stacking softness upon softness.
- engineering term
- Squish is real jargon in piston design
- baby genius
- Soft skulls let infant heads compress through birth
- sea trick
- Octopuses squeeze through gaps the size of an eye
- physics name
- Squishiness is measured as elastic modulus
- survival edge
- Soft tissue absorbs impacts rigid bone would shatter
memory foam — nasa-developed material that deforms under pressure and slowly returns to original shape, patented 1966
squishmallows — plush toy brand with polyester fabric and polyester fiber fill, valued at $5 billion by 2022
marshmallow — confection made from whipped gelatin, corn starch, and powdered sugar, commercially produced since 1948