musculosity

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noun

Muscularity.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounmusculosity (uncountable)
  1. rareuncountableMuscularity.

    MUSCULOSITY [Muſculoſitas, L.] bigneſs of Muſcles.

    [1721, N[athan] Bailey, “MUSCULOSITY”, in An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: […], London: […] E. Bell, J. Darby, […], →OCLC, column 1
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    Sometimes the skin, particularly that covering the scrotum, throws itself, from cold, into alternate contractions and dilatations, which has a greater resemblance to musculosity, than that slow, gradual, and tonic-like action of the bladder on expelling urine.

    1803, Anthelme Richerand, The Elements of Physiology, page 6

    […]the moral “nature of man must be cultivated and trained to accept a condition in which his ‘musculosity’ alone establishes his essential difference;”[…]

    1869 December, Cornelius O'Dowd, “In the Nursery”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 106, number 550, page 726

    The sterile septa have been termed muscle-septa, because the musculosity in them is said to be much more fully than is the case with the other septa, which have been termed reproductive septa.

    1890, D. C. Danielssen, “Actinida del Malacodermata”, in The Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition 1876-1878: Zoology: Actinida, Grøndal and Søn, page 7

    The other physical differentiations are also biologically determined such as musculosity, height, weight, bodily structure, pelvis, broad hips and things and so on.

    1992, Rajkumari Chandrasekhar, Women's Resource and National Development: A Perspective

    Synonyms: muscularity

Synonyms & antonyms

nounMuscularity.

Origin

  1. Frenchmusculosité
  2. Englishmusculosity

From French musculosité.

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