[f. L. angulār-is ANGULAR + -ITY.]
1. The quality or state of being angular; the having sharp or prominent corners.
1642. H. More, Song of Soul, III. II. xxxviii. What body ever yet could figure show Perfectly perfect, as rotundity Exactly round, or blamelesse angularity?
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 84. Glasse grossely or coursely powdered … by reason of its acutenesse and angularity … excoriates the parts through which it passeth.
1841. Trimmer, Pract. Geol., 173. Volcanic grits are distinguished by the angularity of the particles.
b. concr. in pl. Angular outlines, sharp corners.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xxx. (1856), 259. Dried apples become one solid breccial mass of compacted angularities.
1859. Owen, Mammalia, App. B. 84. The shaft of the humerus … is peculiarly rounded … and offers none of those angularities and ridges.
1880. Howells, Undisc. Country, vi. 104. The bold angularities of the fashionable female scrawl.
2. Of personal appearance: Want of rounded outline. Of manner: Want of suavity, crankiness.
1848. Dickens, Dombey (C. D. ed.), 5. Miss Tox’s dress … had a certain character of angularity and scantiness.
1878. Seeley, Stein, I. 310. The angularity and combativeness of Stein’s manner.
