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muscularity|mʌskjuːˈlærɪtɪ|
[f. mod.L. musculār-is muscular + -ity.]
The quality or state of being muscular.
1. The fact of consisting of muscles, or of having well-developed muscles.
1681Grew Musæum i. v. i. 102 Their [sc. the guts of a sturgeon] great thickness and muscularity. 1793Young in Phil. Trans. LXXXIII. 173 Such an arrangement of fibres can be accounted for on no other supposition than that of muscularity. 1824Hist. Murder of Weare 230 The body was remarkable for its muscularity and symmetry. 1874Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. ii. (1879) 31 The muscularity of the walls of the Arteries.
2. Muscular strength or vigour.
1859Smiles Self-Help x. 258 The cultivation of muscularity. 1876L. Stephen Hours in Library II. 341 The modern taste for muscularity.
3. The quality of being cognizable by the ‘muscular sense’. rare.
1868Bain Ment. & Mor. Sci. ii. i. 95 The other element of Touch is Muscularity; the weight, hardness, size, and form of things, are tested and remembered principally by the muscles of the hand and arm. |