incurvity

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noun

The quality of being bent inwards.

OriginLatin incurvus →
Scrabble 17
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Meanings

nounincurvity (usually uncountable, plural incurvities)

plural incurvities

  1. obsoleteuncountableusuallyThe quality of being bent inwards.

    being the Hieroglyphick of celerity, and swifter than other animals, men best expressed their velocity by incurvity, and under some figure of a bow

    1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Folio Society, published 2007, page 428

Origin

  1. Latinincurvitas
  2. Latinincurvus
  3. Englishincurvity

From Latin incurvus + -ity, from Latin incurvitas.

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APA

incurvity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incurvity

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“incurvity.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incurvity. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “incurvity,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incurvity.

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