flexuosity

[flek-shoo-os-i-tee]

noun

1. the quality or condition of being flexuous.

Word History and Origins

Origin of flexuosity¹

From the Late Latin word flexuōsitās, dating back to 1605–15. See flexuous, -ity

Example Sentences

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.

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She wanted to wind her body to its utmost flexuosity, bare her throat to the wind, and fling out a gesture the width of Vegas to Capella.

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He was in summer and office negligée, 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.

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