musculosity
English
Etymology
From French musculosité.
Noun
musculosity (uncountable)
- (rare) muscularity
- 1751, Bailey, Nathan, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, London: R. Ware et al.:
- Musculosity [muſculoſitas, L.] Bigneſs of Muſcles.
- 1803, Richerand, Anthelme, The Elements of Physiology, page 6:
- 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.
- 1869 December, O'Dowd, Cornelius, “In the Nursery”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 106, number 550, page 726:
- […] the moral “nature of man must be cultivated and trained to accept a condition in which his ‘musculosity’ alone establishes his essential difference;” […]
- 1890, Danielssen, D. C., “Actinida del Malacodermata”, in The Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition 1876-1878: Zoology: Actinida, Grøndal and Søn, page 7:
- 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.
- 1992, Chandrasekhar, Rajkumari, Women's Resource and National Development: A Perspective:
- The other physical differentiations are also biologically determined such as musculosity, height, weight, bodily structure, pelvis, broad hips and things and so on.
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Synonyms
- muscularity