angularityn.

Brit.

/ˌaŋɡjᵿˈlarᵻti/, U.S.

/ˌæŋɡjəˈlɛrədi/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin angularitas.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin angularitas (15th cent.) < classical Latin angulāris angular adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). Compare earlier angular adj.The later semantic development is influenced by the senses of angular adj.

1. The quality or state of having angles; angular form or character; lack of roundedness.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > angularity > [noun]

angularity1642

angulosity1659

angulization1665

angularness1670

angulationa1687

edginess1822

quaining1871

1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. O2^v What body ever yet could figure show Perfectly perfect, as rotundity Exactly round, or blamelesse angularity?

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 84 Glasse grossely or coursely powdered..by reason of its acutenesse and angularity..excoriates the parts through which it passeth.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 55 It was like a thin horn something diaphanous..which diaphanity might perchance hinder the appearance both of its cavity and angularity.

1700 tr. H. M. Herwig Art of curing Sympathetically App. 118 Specifical proprieties, as are the different species of Figures, smoothness, sharpness, angularity, roughness, bluntness, rotundity.

1776 H. Watson tr. L. Euler Compl. Theory Vessels ii. vii. 138 The Side ACB should in no Part have any great Curvature and still less any Angularity.

1841 J. Trimmer Pract. Geol. 173 Volcanic grits are distinguished by the angularity of the particles.

1882 C. Dresser Japan ii. i. 286 Rounded lines..generally produce feebleness of effect: whereas angularity in drawing gives vigour and life.

1928 G. H. Edgell Amer. Archit. To-day 123 The ruggedness of the brick, the angularity of the furniture, and the heavy projection of sharp-cornered masses of masonry, all have a tendency to repel.

1978 Lancs. Life Sept. 56/4 The stolid, stonebuilt houses and mills.., giving a complementary angularity to the rhythmic forms of the surrounding hills.

2008 Financial Times 25 Oct. (House & Home section) 4/1 It is in a striking development, its angularity relieved by dramatic curves and splashes of magenta and lilac.

2. An angular projection or outline; a sharp corner. Frequently in plural.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > angularity > [noun] > angular outlines

angularity1793

1793 R. Polwhele Hist. Devonshire II. 7 The long lines..of elm-trees..gradually lose, as they recede, their straightness or angularities, blending at distance into a fine mass of shadowy foliage.

1859 R. Owen Lect. Classif. Mammalia App. B. 84 The shaft of the humerus..is peculiarly rounded..and offers none of those angularities and ridges.

1880 W. D. Howells Undiscovered Country vi. 104 The bold angularities of the fashionable female scrawl.

1891 Christian Union 18 June 807/2 The rich padding of this plush-like moss, rounding each angularity, curtaining many a crevice, [etc.].

1931 Pop. Mech. Jan. 169/2 The spikes must be driven fairly close together on short curves, as otherwise slight angularities are bound to occur.

1957 R. Daniel tr. S. J. De Laet Archaeol. & its Probl. i. 22 Heat, frost, rain, and wind eat away the masonry and smooth the angularities of its sculptured ornament.

2010 K. Zimmermann Little Trains to Faraway Places vi. 70 Contours of boilers and angularities of machinery were highlighted by the incandescent light spilling through the open doors of the engine shed.

3. With reference to a person.

a. Angular appearance; leanness, boniness.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > thin shape > state of having

leannessa1000

boninessa1398

macilence?a1425

meagreness?a1425

macies?a1450

meagrec1450

povertya1475

bareness1552

extenuation1576

poorness1577

gauntness1607

lankness1611

macilencya1631

spareness1648

emaceration1656

emaciation1662

skinniness1688

angularity1822

thinness1827

pinchedness1857

scrawniness1863

scragginess1865

wizenedness1887

1822 Examiner 21 Apr. 250/2 Why that unrelaxed fixture of the features in one cast of angularity?

1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) i. 5 Miss Tox's dress..had a certain character of angularity and scantiness.

1908 Chicago Clinic Jan. 26/1 His clothes have a cut peculiarly their own, his body an angularity in keeping with them.

1982 Shakespeare Q. 33 351 The sharp angularity of his face underlined by mimer's white make-up.

2009 P. Theroux in New Yorker 14 Sept. 97/3 She had the starved angularity of high fashion.

b. Stiff or awkward manner; lack of social graces; prickliness.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [noun] > lack of affability

strangenessc1386

unhomelinessc1440

fremdnessa1500

coldness1557

coolnessa1586

self-guarda1586

diskindness1596

formality1599

reservedness1606

inaffability1611

restrainta1616

unconess1637

chillness1639

froideur1645

distance1660

starchedness1670

buckram1682

starchness?1693

starch1694

reserve1711

stiffness1717

unapproachableness1727

retirement1803

angularity1824

standoffishness1826

distancy1836

chill1837

starchiness1844

unapproachability1846

hedgehogginess1858

standoff1865

offishness1867

aloofness1878

pokerishness1880

untouchableness1909

untouchability1919

stuffiness1926

1824 Examiner 9 May 299/2 A little relief in this particular would..divest his performance of some of the angularity, by the removal of which it would be certainly improved.

1878 J. R. Seeley Life & Times Stein I. 310 The angularity and combativeness of Stein's manner.

1905 Cornhill Mag. May 632 His hard struggle with the slings and arrows of Fortune developed an irritability of temper, some unamiable idiosyncrasies, and a certain angularity of manner.

1988 M. C. Miller Boxed In 245 Her most obvious and daunting characteristic is not her coldness, or her silence, or her angularity, but the general attitude that subsumes these traits: her manifest detachment.

2011 J. Haslam Russia's Cold War ii. 34 The cosmopolitan, patrician emollience of his character, as against the awkward, provincial angularity of his untried successor.

c. A quirk or problematic aspect of a person's character; an eccentricity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > deviation from normal standards of behaviour > instance of

singularity1570

excursion1615

eccentricity1657

exorbitanta1714

angularity1833

unconventionality1854

quiddities1941

1833 Examiner 3 Mar. 133/2 We want occasionally the dryness, the sharpness, the angularities of Mathews.

1860 Fraser's Mag. Dec. 723/1 A good man must have, like Havelock, some angularities of character, before you can make a book out of him—some angularities that cut sharply.

1910 Presbyterian Banner 7 Apr. 21/1 To correct an angularity, nothing else is so efficacious as another angularity: to reclaim an egoist, nothing equals another egoist.

1970 Jrnl. Contemp. Hist. 5 following p. 194 He was benevolent and indulgent towards the oddest foibles and the sharpest angularities.

1999 N.Y. Times 22 Aug. iv. 5/3 If he didn't have any of these slight angularities..then the question would be: Is he bland and soapy?

4. Music. The quality of having an irregularity or sparseness of rhythm, melody, or dynamics which is suggestive of a succession of sharp angles or abrupt turns; lack of smooth or predictable progression.

ΚΠ

1870 Musical Times Aug. 556/1 Rugged angularity, that offends the modern musician's ear, becomes a very virtue.

1892 H. H. Statham My Thoughts on Music & Musicians v. 279 The first movement exhibits a certain degree of abruptness and angularity at times, but not more than is sufficient to convey the dramatic meaning intended.

1961 W. Russo Composing for Jazz Orchestra 76 Unisons are particularly useful for passages with much skipping in the melodic line... The unison is sometimes the only way in which angularity of line can be accommodated.

1990 Opera Now May 83/4 Lines were delineated to create telling contrasts, compromising neither the angularity nor lyricism of the score.

2004 Time Out N.Y. 8 July 121/4 The O. C...exposed Phantom Planet's new-wave angularity, crunched-up guitars and bang-on pop sensibilities to the Abercrombied masses.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	angularity
释义	angularityn. Brit. /ˌaŋɡjᵿˈlarᵻti/, U.S. /ˌæŋɡjəˈlɛrədi/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin angularitas. Etymology: < post-classical Latin angularitas (15th cent.) < classical Latin angulāris angular adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). Compare earlier angular adj.The later semantic development is influenced by the senses of angular adj. 1. The quality or state of having angles; angular form or character; lack of roundedness. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > [noun] angularity1642 angulosity1659 angulization1665 angularness1670 angulationa1687 edginess1822 quaining1871 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. O2^v What body ever yet could figure show Perfectly perfect, as rotundity Exactly round, or blamelesse angularity? 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 84 Glasse grossely or coursely powdered..by reason of its acutenesse and angularity..excoriates the parts through which it passeth. View more context for this quotation 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 55 It was like a thin horn something diaphanous..which diaphanity might perchance hinder the appearance both of its cavity and angularity. 1700 tr. H. M. Herwig Art of curing Sympathetically App. 118 Specifical proprieties, as are the different species of Figures, smoothness, sharpness, angularity, roughness, bluntness, rotundity. 1776 H. Watson tr. L. Euler Compl. Theory Vessels ii. vii. 138 The Side ACB should in no Part have any great Curvature and still less any Angularity. 1841 J. Trimmer Pract. Geol. 173 Volcanic grits are distinguished by the angularity of the particles. 1882 C. Dresser Japan ii. i. 286 Rounded lines..generally produce feebleness of effect: whereas angularity in drawing gives vigour and life. 1928 G. H. Edgell Amer. Archit. To-day 123 The ruggedness of the brick, the angularity of the furniture, and the heavy projection of sharp-cornered masses of masonry, all have a tendency to repel. 1978 Lancs. Life Sept. 56/4 The stolid, stonebuilt houses and mills.., giving a complementary angularity to the rhythmic forms of the surrounding hills. 2008 Financial Times 25 Oct. (House & Home section) 4/1 It is in a striking development, its angularity relieved by dramatic curves and splashes of magenta and lilac. 2. An angular projection or outline; a sharp corner. Frequently in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > [noun] > angular outlines angularity1793 1793 R. Polwhele Hist. Devonshire II. 7 The long lines..of elm-trees..gradually lose, as they recede, their straightness or angularities, blending at distance into a fine mass of shadowy foliage. 1859 R. Owen Lect. Classif. Mammalia App. B. 84 The shaft of the humerus..is peculiarly rounded..and offers none of those angularities and ridges. 1880 W. D. Howells Undiscovered Country vi. 104 The bold angularities of the fashionable female scrawl. 1891 Christian Union 18 June 807/2 The rich padding of this plush-like moss, rounding each angularity, curtaining many a crevice, [etc.]. 1931 Pop. Mech. Jan. 169/2 The spikes must be driven fairly close together on short curves, as otherwise slight angularities are bound to occur. 1957 R. Daniel tr. S. J. De Laet Archaeol. & its Probl. i. 22 Heat, frost, rain, and wind eat away the masonry and smooth the angularities of its sculptured ornament. 2010 K. Zimmermann Little Trains to Faraway Places vi. 70 Contours of boilers and angularities of machinery were highlighted by the incandescent light spilling through the open doors of the engine shed. 3. With reference to a person. a. Angular appearance; leanness, boniness. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > thin shape > state of having leannessa1000 boninessa1398 macilence?a1425 meagreness?a1425 macies?a1450 meagrec1450 povertya1475 bareness1552 extenuation1576 poorness1577 gauntness1607 lankness1611 macilencya1631 spareness1648 emaceration1656 emaciation1662 skinniness1688 angularity1822 thinness1827 pinchedness1857 scrawniness1863 scragginess1865 wizenedness1887 1822 Examiner 21 Apr. 250/2 Why that unrelaxed fixture of the features in one cast of angularity? 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) i. 5 Miss Tox's dress..had a certain character of angularity and scantiness. 1908 Chicago Clinic Jan. 26/1 His clothes have a cut peculiarly their own, his body an angularity in keeping with them. 1982 Shakespeare Q. 33 351 The sharp angularity of his face underlined by mimer's white make-up. 2009 P. Theroux in New Yorker 14 Sept. 97/3 She had the starved angularity of high fashion. b. Stiff or awkward manner; lack of social graces; prickliness. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [noun] > lack of affability strangenessc1386 unhomelinessc1440 fremdnessa1500 coldness1557 coolnessa1586 self-guarda1586 diskindness1596 formality1599 reservedness1606 inaffability1611 restrainta1616 unconess1637 chillness1639 froideur1645 distance1660 starchedness1670 buckram1682 starchness?1693 starch1694 reserve1711 stiffness1717 unapproachableness1727 retirement1803 angularity1824 standoffishness1826 distancy1836 chill1837 starchiness1844 unapproachability1846 hedgehogginess1858 standoff1865 offishness1867 aloofness1878 pokerishness1880 untouchableness1909 untouchability1919 stuffiness1926 1824 Examiner 9 May 299/2 A little relief in this particular would..divest his performance of some of the angularity, by the removal of which it would be certainly improved. 1878 J. R. Seeley Life & Times Stein I. 310 The angularity and combativeness of Stein's manner. 1905 Cornhill Mag. May 632 His hard struggle with the slings and arrows of Fortune developed an irritability of temper, some unamiable idiosyncrasies, and a certain angularity of manner. 1988 M. C. Miller Boxed In 245 Her most obvious and daunting characteristic is not her coldness, or her silence, or her angularity, but the general attitude that subsumes these traits: her manifest detachment. 2011 J. Haslam Russia's Cold War ii. 34 The cosmopolitan, patrician emollience of his character, as against the awkward, provincial angularity of his untried successor. c. A quirk or problematic aspect of a person's character; an eccentricity. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > deviation from normal standards of behaviour > instance of singularity1570 excursion1615 eccentricity1657 exorbitanta1714 angularity1833 unconventionality1854 quiddities1941 1833 Examiner 3 Mar. 133/2 We want occasionally the dryness, the sharpness, the angularities of Mathews. 1860 Fraser's Mag. Dec. 723/1 A good man must have, like Havelock, some angularities of character, before you can make a book out of him—some angularities that cut sharply. 1910 Presbyterian Banner 7 Apr. 21/1 To correct an angularity, nothing else is so efficacious as another angularity: to reclaim an egoist, nothing equals another egoist. 1970 Jrnl. Contemp. Hist. 5 following p. 194 He was benevolent and indulgent towards the oddest foibles and the sharpest angularities. 1999 N.Y. Times 22 Aug. iv. 5/3 If he didn't have any of these slight angularities..then the question would be: Is he bland and soapy? 4. Music. The quality of having an irregularity or sparseness of rhythm, melody, or dynamics which is suggestive of a succession of sharp angles or abrupt turns; lack of smooth or predictable progression. ΚΠ 1870 Musical Times Aug. 556/1 Rugged angularity, that offends the modern musician's ear, becomes a very virtue. 1892 H. H. Statham My Thoughts on Music & Musicians v. 279 The first movement exhibits a certain degree of abruptness and angularity at times, but not more than is sufficient to convey the dramatic meaning intended. 1961 W. Russo Composing for Jazz Orchestra 76 Unisons are particularly useful for passages with much skipping in the melodic line... The unison is sometimes the only way in which angularity of line can be accommodated. 1990 Opera Now May 83/4 Lines were delineated to create telling contrasts, compromising neither the angularity nor lyricism of the score. 2004 Time Out N.Y. 8 July 121/4 The O. C...exposed Phantom Planet's new-wave angularity, crunched-up guitars and bang-on pop sensibilities to the Abercrombied masses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1642
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