muscularity

English

Etymology

From muscular +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

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Noun

muscularity (countable and uncountable, plural muscularities)

1. musculature

   The muscularity in his forearm was visible as he flexed his fingers.

2. (bodybuilding) The degree to which the muscles in a body part are developed.

   Focussed exercise brought out the muscularity in her calves.

3. The use of strength.
   • 2018 October 13, Judith Taylor, “I’m a woman who imitated the swagger of an entitled white male — and it got results”, in The Star:

     I won’t promote the silencing of dissent through verbal muscularity.

Synonyms

• muscledom

Translations

degree to which the muscles in a body part are developed

• Dutch: gespierdheid (nl)
• Italian: muscolosità f
• Polish: muskularość f
• Russian: мускулистость (ru) f (muskulistostʹ)
• Welsh: cyhyrogrwydd m