muscularity

English

Etymology

muscular +‎ -ity

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