Noun: curvaceousness
Sample Sentences
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On this base are "Various Serpents" made out of metal, the triumph of the coiling process. Their projection is masculine, but their sway and curvaceousness are feminine. [1986 August 24, William Zimmer, “Mayan Themes in Stamford Sculpture Show”, in New York Times, page CN28:]
Nouns inflected like curvaceousness
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English curvaceous
3. Proto-Germanic *-inōną
4. Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
5. Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
6. Proto-Indo-European *-tus
7. Proto-Germanic *-þuz
8. Proto-Germanic *-assuz
9. Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
10. Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
11. Old English -nes
12. Middle English -nesse
13. English -ness
14. English curvaceousness
15. From curvaceous + -ness.