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GRACILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gracility mean? 

GRACILITY (noun)
  The noun GRACILITY has 1 sense:

1. elegance and beauty of movement or expressionplay

  Familiarity information: GRACILITY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GRACILITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Elegance and beauty of movement or expression

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

grace; gracility

Context example:

a beautiful figure which she used in subtle movements of unparalleled grace

Hypernyms ("gracility" is a kind of...):

gracefulness (beautiful carriage)

Derivation:

gracile (slender and graceful)


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