muscularity

From muscular +‎ -ity.

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muscularity (countable and uncountable, plural muscularities)

1. Synonym of musculature.

   The muscularity in his forearm was visible as he flexed his fingers.

2. (bodybuilding) The degree to which the muscles in a body part are developed.

   Focussed exercise brought out the muscularity in her calves.

   • 1974, Mark Smith, “Nymphomania”, in The Death of the Detective, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, book 1 (Prelude to Murder), page 78:

     She has the nose and cheekbones of a Cherokee and is so black and statuesque in her muscularity and boneyness that she seems carved by an ax from an effulgent vein of coal.

3. The use of strength.
   • 2018 October 13, Judith Taylor, “I’m a woman who imitated the swagger of an entitled white male — and it got results”, in The Star:

     I won’t promote the silencing of dissent through verbal muscularity.

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