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musculosity

musculosity noun: muscularity.

Noun

musculosity (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Muscularity.
    • 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
    • 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
    Synonyms:
    muscularity

Examples of musculosity in a sentence

  • […]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...
  • 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 of musculosity

Origin of musculosity

From French musculosité.

Questions about musculosity

What does musculosity mean?
Musculosity means muscularity.
How do you use musculosity in a sentence?
[…]the moral “nature of man must be cultivated and trained to accept a condition in which his ‘musculosity’ alone establishes his essential difference;”[…]
What part of speech is musculosity?
Musculosity is a noun.

Words near musculosity in the dictionary

  1. musculoperiosteal
  2. musculoperitoneal
  3. musculophrenic
  4. musculoplegia
  5. musculoplegic
  6. musculosity
  7. musculoskeletal
  8. musculoskeletally
  9. musculospastic
  10. musculospinal
  11. musculospiral

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