montuosity

montuosity

English

Noun

montuosity (plural montuosities)

1. The property of being montuous or having mountains.

   Various appearances from which the Moon's montuosity is argued.

2. A mountain or mountainlike unevenness on a surface; a mountain peak.

   But had these mountains been diaphanous, we could never have seen those luminous montuosities.

References

• Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1661), translating the Italian montuosità and (in the plural) cuspidi.