| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. A state of being bent or curved; incurvation; a bending inwards.[Websters]. | |
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Date "INCURVITY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
| Etymology:Incurvity \In*cur"vi*ty\, noun. [From Latin incurvus bent. See Incurvate.]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: INCURVITY
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| Noah Webster | [Noun] A state of being bent or crooked; crookedness; a bending inward.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Noun] (obsolete) The quality of being bent inwards. 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Folio Society 2007, p. 428: being the Hieroglyphick of celerity, and swifter than other animals, men best expressed their velocity by incurvity, and under some figure of a bow. (references) | ||
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