aquilinity

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
22
Words With Friends
24
Letters
10

Definition of aquilinity

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The quality of being aquiline (resembling an eagle).
    “These idols, though representing the softer sex as often as the masculine, were by no means remarkable for personal beauty. Not one had been permitted to retain its entire complement of limbs, and if a lady had managed to preserve the aquilinity of her nose, she might consider herself a fortunate exception.”
    “Aunt Em was working at a new piece of French tapestry, her slight aquilinity emphasised by tortoise-shell spectacles.”
    “[…] & so it came to pass that, on the same week Sissee Nar’s nose was Enhanced into eternal aquilinity, Nar & Tri-Stan’s much-ballyhooed Satyr-Nymph Network was born & licensed for analog broadcast.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From aquiline + -ity.

Find your best play with aquilinity

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes aquilinity, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.