musculosity
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French musculosité.
Noun
[edit]musculosity (uncountable)
- (rare) Muscularity.
- [1721, N[athan] Bailey, “MUSCULOSITY”, in An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: […], London: […] E. Bell, J. Darby, […], →OCLC, column 1:
- MUSCULOSITY [Muſculoſitas, L.] bigneſs of Muſcles.]
- 1803, Anthelme Richerand, 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, Cornelius O'Dowd, “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, D. C. Danielssen, “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, Rajkumari Chandrasekhar, Women's Resource and National Development: A Perspective[1]:
- The other physical differentiations are also biologically determined such as musculosity, height, weight, bodily structure, pelvis, broad hips and things and so on.