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  • noun The state or condition of being flexuous.

Etymologies

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flexuous +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Her gait, too, had a flexuousness about it, which seemed to avoid angularity.

    The Mayor of Casterbridge 1887

  • This was conceivably owing to a too dominant speculative activity in him, which, while it had preserved the emotional side of his constitution, and with it the significant flexuousness of mouth and chin, had played upon his forehead and temples till, at weary moments, they exhibited some traces of being over-exercised.

    A Laodicean : a Story of To-day Thomas Hardy 1884

  • a flexuousness about it, which seemed to avoid angularity.

    The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884

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