curvity

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English

Etymology

From Latin curvitas, from curvus (bent). Compare French curvité.

Noun

curvity (countable and uncountable, plural curvities)

  1. The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.
    • 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech: An Essay of Inquiry into the Natural Production of Letters: , London: T. N for J Martyn printer to the R Society, , →OCLC:
      the joyned ends of that Bone, and the Incus receding, make a more acute Angle at that joynt, and give a greater Curvity to the posture of the said three Ossicles

Derived terms

References

curvity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.