Definition of "nubility" [nu•bil•i•ty]

• The property or state of being nubile (noun)

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• "Though he believed that male circumcision had vanished from southern Mozambique a long time previously, Junod described continuing female "nubility" or initiation (khomba) rites practised among the "Northern clans," a group that would have included residents of the Magude area; it was in this context, he implies, that girls were continuing to adopt a second name."
• "I could not be moved by Teutonic nubility, taut bellies, or thong-flossed buttocks."
• "The approach of nubility had been more strongly marked still when Albertine, speaking of another girl whose tone was bad, said:"