incurvity

English

Etymology

From Latin incurvus +‎ -ity, from Latin incurvitas.

Noun

incurvity (usually uncountable, plural incurvities)

1. (obsolete) The quality of being bent inwards.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Folio Society, published 2007, page 428:

     being the Hieroglyphick of celerity, and swifter than other animals, men best expressed their velocity by incurvity, and under some figure of a bow