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incurvity

incurvity noun: the quality of being bent inwards.

Noun

incurvity (usually uncountable, plural incurvities)

  1. (obsolete, usually) The 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 bow1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Folio Society, published 2007, page 428

Forms of incurvity

pluralincurvities

Origin of incurvity

From Latin incurvus + -ity, from Latin incurvitas.

Questions about incurvity

What does incurvity mean?
Incurvity means the quality of being bent inwards.
What part of speech is incurvity?
Incurvity is a noun.
What is the plural of incurvity?
The plural of incurvity is incurvities.

Words near incurvity in the dictionary

  1. incurve
  2. incurved
  3. incurves
  4. incurving
  5. incurvities
  6. incurvity
  7. incus
  8. incuse
  9. incused
  10. incusely
  11. incuses

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