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Meaning of "gracility" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GRACILITY

gracility  [ɡræˈsɪlɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GRACILITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Gracility is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GRACILITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Gracility

Gracility is slenderness, the condition of being gracile, which means slender. It derives from the Latin adjective gracilis, or gracile which in either form means slender, and when transferred for example to discourse, takes the sense of "without ornament", "simple", or various similar connotations. In his famous "Glossary of Botanic Terms", B. D. Jackson speaks dismissively of an entry in earlier dictionary of A. A. Crozier as follows: Gracilis, slender. Crozier has the needless word "gracile". However, his objection would be hard to sustain in current usage; apart from the fact that "gracile" is a natural and convenient term, it is hardly a neologism; the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary gives the source date for that usage as 1623. In the same entry for Gracile, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary remarks: Recently misused for Gracefully slender. This misuse is unfortunate at least, because the terms gracile and grace are completely unrelated: the etymological root of grace is the Latin word gratia from gratus, meaning pleasing and nothing to do with slenderness or thinness.

Definition of gracility in the English dictionary

The definition of gracility in the dictionary is graceful thinness or slenderness.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GRACILITY


ability
əˈbɪlɪtɪ
accessibility
əkˌsɛsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
availability
əˌveɪləˈbɪlɪtɪ
capability
ˌkeɪpəˈbɪlɪtɪ
docility
dɒˈsɪlɪtɪ
exility
ɛkˈsɪlɪtɪ
facility
fəˈsɪlɪtɪ
fissility
fɪˈsɪlɪtɪ
imbecility
ˌɪmbɪˈsɪlɪtɪ
indocility
ˌɪndəʊˈsɪlɪtɪ
liability
ˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
nobility
nəʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
pensility
pɛnˈsɪlɪtɪ
possibility
ˌpɒsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
prehensility
ˌpriːhɛnˈsɪlɪtɪ
responsibility
rɪˌspɒnsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
sessility
sɛˈsɪlɪtɪ
stability
stəˈbɪlɪtɪ
tensility
tenˈsɪlɪtɪ
utility
juːˈtɪlɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GRACILITY

grace cup
grace note
grace period
grace-and-favour
graceful
gracefully
gracefulness
graceless
gracelessly
gracelessness
Graces
gracile
gracileness
gracilis
graciosity
gracioso
gracious
graciously
graciousness
grackle

WORDS THAT END LIKE GRACILITY

accountability
affordability
agility
credibility
disability
durability
eligibility
feasibility
fertility
flexibility
functionality
hostility
humility
inability
inevitability
mobility
probability
reliability
suitability
sustainability
visibility

Synonyms and antonyms of gracility in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «gracility» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GRACILITY

Find out the translation of gracility to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of gracility from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gracility» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

gracility
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

gracility
570 millions of speakers

English

gracility
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

gracility
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

gracility
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

gracility
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

gracility
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

gracilis
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

gracility
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gracilis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gracility
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

gracility
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

gracility
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gracilis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

gracility
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மடக்குத்தசையில் செல்லும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Gracilis
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

grasilis
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

gracilità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gracility
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

gracility
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

gracility
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

gracility
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gracility
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gracility
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gracility
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of gracility

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GRACILITY»

The term «gracility» is used very little and occupies the 189.085 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GRACILITY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about gracility

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GRACILITY»

Discover the use of gracility in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gracility and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Nature of Homosexuality: Vindication for Homosexual ...
The gracility of the central tendency of facial anatomy in Southern Sweden undoubtedly best fits the gracility of the reference facial template corresponding to high standards of aesthetic preferences among Europeans, and this template is ...
Erik Holland, 2004
2
The First Boat People
Interestingly, it is the comparative loss of gracility in favour of robustness that marks the late Pleistocene. After that gracilisation takes off again during the Holocene. This trend suggests an initial loss of gracile genes in almost all populations, ...
S. G. Webb, 2006
3
Festschrift:
Plate 2. The same three crania in partial lateral view, showing the small brow ridges, the epipteric bone in the center cranium, the medium amount of alveolar prognathism and the gracility or overall lack of muscularity. others which did not.
Universidad Autónoma de México. Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, 1990
4
Tyrannosaurid Paleobiology
Bivariate plot of scapular expansion ratio vs. scapular gracility ratio (see the plot axes, as well as Tables 1.1 and I .2, for definitions of these ratios). Tyrannosauroid theropods are represented by an x, non-tyrannosauroid large- bodied ...
J. Michael Parrish, Ralph E. Molnar, Philip J. Currie, 2013
5
Children and Exercise XIX: Promoting Health and Well-being
In the row of the metric index mean values (table 4) a "positive" trend of moving toward a more linear body build - a higher gracility - can be observed. This trend could be proved by age and by the subsequent observations, too. The increasing  ...
N. Armstrong, 2013
6
The Dinosauria: Second Edition
Holtz (1995b) and Currie (2000, 2003a) demonstrated that in tyrannosaurids ( and other nonavian theropods) the proportions and gracility of the distal limb elements decrease as body size increases. Thus, larger tyrannosaurids have shorter ...
David B. Weishampel, Peter Dodson, Halszka Osmólska, 2004
7
The Origins of Modern Humans: Biology Reconsidered
One might assume this gracility to be a consequence of genetic influences from Africa, conditions spread by dispersing Africans. But it is not evident that dispersing Africans themselves were especially small or gracile. Gracility does appear ...
Fred H. Smith, James C. Ahern, 2013
8
Shakspeare's Himself Again: Or, The Language of the Poet ...
Instead then of ' impel ticoat thy gratuity' as set down in the modern editions, and which is wholly arbitrary, 1 would read : " I did impetree thy cosa, thy gracility," [ the graf Hi! y of the old copy directs to this latter word.] Impetree is formed of the ...
Andrew Becket, 1815
9
Drapers' Company Research Memoirs: Biometric series
have a gracility which is six points less and this reduction is continued in the Greater Anthropoids so as to be eight points less. In the gorilla indeed it is twelve points less and he actually attains a maximum of shaft strength by an index of ...
‎1919
10
Continent of Hunter-Gatherers: New Perspectives in ...
The first group (which included the Lake Mungo individuals) was characterised by Thome as gracile, and in the case of Lake Mungo I and III, 'of extreme gracility': The non,metrical features of the Kellor cranium appear to be consistent with ...
Harry Lourandos, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GRACILITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gracility is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Osteoporosis: a disease of the modern world?
1. Timothy M. Ryan and Colin N. Shaw. Gracility of the modern Homo sapiens skeleton is the result of decreased biomechanical loading. PNAS ... «The Pharmaceutical Journal, Feb 15»
2
Human Evolution: Our Bones Grew Weaker As We Switched To …
Gracility of the modern Homo sapiens skeleton is the result of decreased biomechanical loading. Proceedings of the National Academy of ... «Medical Daily, Dec 14»
3
Evolution of humans from hunters to farmers made bones brittle and …
“We set out to test three potential explanations for modern human gracility and any one of them would have been interesting,” says Timothy M. «The Westside Story, Dec 14»
4
Switching to Farming Made Human Joint Bones Lighter
... but no one was sure what has been driving this “gracility.” Previous studies suggested that walking upright put more pressure on joints to go ... «Smithsonian, Dec 14»
5
Dr Nitin Raut attends magic of Urdu poetry at a mushaira in Nagpur
He replied to this with gracility and energy as he said the line, 'Afwah thi ki meri tabiyet kharab hain, Logo ne puch puch ke hi bimar kar diya!' ... «Times of India, Apr 13»
6
Deepshikha Das performs Bharatnatyam Arangetram at this event in …
Elegance and gracility were the words which best defined the Bharatnatyam Arangetram of Deepshikha Das, which brought quite a few dance ... «Times of India, Mar 13»
7
Three-toed horses reveal the secret of the Tibetan Plateau uplift
The gracility of the metapodial shaft is represented by diminished breadth relative to its length. The ratio between the maximum length and the ... «Phys.Org, Apr 12»
8
The evolution of the human face
Second, natural selection for gracility has resulted in the in situ evolution of many populations over the last ~10,000 years. An interesting aspect ... «Discover Magazine, Mar 12»
9
Jobs Authorized Bio For Kids
He is resigning from Apple at the height of his achievement, the pinnacle of his fame, the most gorgeous gracility of his charisma, his fortune ... «Daily Beast, Oct 11»
10
Where our ancestors lived
He notes that the gracility of the toes is an individual pattern that develops during childhood. Tianyuan caveman, it seems, had worn baby ... «China Daily, Feb 09»

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