flexuosity

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  • noun The quality of being flexuous or full of bends and curves.

Examples

  • He was in summer and office negligĂ©e, an unlined blue-serge coat, a white-silk shirt which lay lightly to his body flexuosity, and above the soft collar he had taken on enough outdoor tan to make his smile whiter.

    Star-Dust

  • Or it may be the motion, the flexuosity, the impetus of things; the tactile impressions of softness and harshness, which make up the descriptive content of imaginative types in whom the tactile and muscular sensations predominate.

    Spontaneous Activity in Education

Note

The word 'flexuosity' comes ultimately from a Latin word meaning 'to bend'.