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Muscularity

noun
1.
The physiological state of having or consisting of muscle.
2.
Possessing muscular strength.  Synonyms: brawn, brawniness, heftiness, muscle, sinew.
3.
An imaginative lively style (especially style of writing).  Synonyms: energy, vigor, vigour, vim.  "A remarkable muscularity of style"





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"Muscularity" Quotes from Famous Books



... than the fisherwoman was lashed in being called an isosceles and a parallelopipedon. Not much more "sweetly reasonable" will he seem to the ordinary Cantab. when he says that the Cambridge addiction to muscularity would have sent the college, but for the Hebrew religion, "in procession, vice-chancellor, bedels, masters, scholars, and all, in spite of the professor of modern philosophy, to the temple of Aphrodite;" nor anymore "sweetly reasonable" will he seem to the ordinary ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII, No. 28. July, 1873. • Various


Words linked to "Muscularity" :   physiological condition, life, sprightliness, liveliness, physical condition, vitality, spirit, strength, energy, verve, muscular, physiological state


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