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English
Etymology
From Latin incurvus + -ity, from Latin incurvitas.
Noun
incurvity (usually uncountable, plural incurvities)
- (obsolete) The quality of being bent inwards.
1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Folio Society, published 2007, page 428:being the Hieroglyphick of celerity, and swifter than other animals, men best expressed their velocity by incurvity, and under some figure of a bow