muscularity
- noun
- /ˌmʌs.kjəˈræl.ɪ.ti/
- His impressive muscularity showed the results of years spent lifting weights.
- fatness and muscularity
- muscularity and size
- muscularity and strength
Examples
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Participants expressed a strong desire for muscularity (3.10, 0.69) and often sought reassurance concerning their appearance (3.09, 0.62).
Academic text (2011) -
"The descriptions were extremely consistent across participants, and three main characteristics of the 'ideal' body emerged: height, shape/weight, and strength/muscularity.
Academic text (2004) -
Thus, the reported thoughts and feelings of being heavier than ideal may reflect a new emphasis on lean muscularity among college men.
Academic text (1996) -
Yeah, but they look at conditioning, structure, muscularity, proportions, how you pose.
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The expected reaction would be for men and boys to turn to substances that change the body in promoting leanness and muscularity.
Academic text (2011) -
Both of these responses could be related to claims that steroids increase muscularity, and thus possibly increase attractiveness.
Academic text (1990) -
Finally, figure drawings that depict a range of muscularity across different body regions appear viable in assessing body image in young men.
Academic text (2009) -
However, college men's desire to become larger may be tempered by an ideal of lean male muscularity.
Academic text (1996) -
Her dangling earrings only heightened the serious muscularity of her shoulders.
Fiction book (1994) -
Results are discussed in relation to gender schema theory and cultural ideals of female thinness and male muscularity.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
The shape, size, and condition of a person's body
Physical strength often used instead of thinking
The group of muscles in the whole body or in one part
Great physical strength that people notice
Muscular strength or a strong, fit body
The parts of the body that make it move and keep it steady
Having a strong body and big muscles
A strong, thick body with clear muscles
The shape, size, and strength of a person's body
A large, strong, and solid body or appearance
How large and sturdy bones or body parts are
Antonyms
How Muscular
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Muscularity comes from the Latin word musculus, which means 'little mouse' because people thought a moving muscle looked like a small mouse under the skin, and this gave us the English word muscle. So muscularity means having strong, well-developed muscles.