English

Noun

gracility ‎(countable and uncountable, plural gracilities)

1. The property or condition of being gracile.
   • Stephen L. Whittington, David M. Reed (eds.) (2006) Bones of the Maya: Studies of Ancient Skeletons, Tuscaloosa, Ala: University of Alabama Press, ISBN 9780817353766, page 69: “Gracility is usually considered a female characteristic and contrasts strikingly here with the robusticity and large size of the mandible.”

Usage notes

• The term is common in descriptions of anatomy, either botanical or zoological.

Translations

Synonyms

• slenderness, thinness

References

• gracility at OneLook Dictionary Search