curvity

English

Etymology

From Latin curvitas, from curvus (“bent”). Compare French curvité.

Noun

curvity (countable and uncountable, plural curvities)

1. The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.
   • 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech: An Essay of Inquiry into the Natural Production of Letters: […], London: […] T. N[ewcomb] for J[ohn] Martyn printer to the R[oyal] Society, […], →OCLC:

     the joyned ends of that Bone, and the Incus receding, make a more acute Angle at that joynt, and give a greater Curvity to the posture of the said three Ossicles

Derived terms

• concurvity

 

References

“curvity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.