gracility
nounEtymology From gracile + -ity.
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Anatomy, Biology, Botany, Medicine, Natural sciences, Sciences, Zoology Often 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, page 69: “Gracility is usually considered a female characteristic and contrasts strikingly here with the robusticity and large size of the mandible.”
- Synonyms
- slenderness, thinness