muscularity
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6.1
- 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
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4.8
The shape, size, and condition of a person's body
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5.1
Physical strength often used instead of thinking
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7.1
The group of muscles in the whole body or in one part
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3.2
The shape, size, and strength of a person's body
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6.7
Great physical strength that people notice
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9.9
Muscular strength or a strong, fit body
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3.6
The parts of the body that make it move and keep it steady
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9.3
How large and sturdy bones or body parts are
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5.7
Having a strong body and big muscles
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5.3
A large, strong, and solid body or appearance
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4.5
A strong, thick body with clear muscles
Antonyms
How Muscular
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6.1
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3.2
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.