gracility

English

Etymology

gracile +‎ -ity

Noun

gracility (countable and uncountable, plural gracilities)

1. (often anatomy, botany, zoology) The property or condition of being gracile.
   • Stephen L. Whittington, David M. Reed (eds.) (2006) Bones of the Maya: Studies of Ancient Skeletons, Tuscaloosa, Ala: University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 69: “Gracility is usually considered a female characteristic and contrasts strikingly here with the robusticity and large size of the mandible.”

Synonyms

• slenderness, thinness

Translations

the property or condition of being gracile

• Bulgarian: стройност f (strojnost)

References

• “gracility”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.