Declivity meaning

Noun: declivity

Pronunciation: (di’kli-vu-tee)

Declivity meaning:

• downward inclination
• a descending slope or bend

Synonyms: declension, decline, descent, downhill, hang

Quotations: John Playfair – Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportional to its size, and all of them together forming a system of valleys, communicating with one another, and having such a nice adjustment of their declivities that none of them join the principal valley on too high or too low a level; a circumstance which would be infinitely improbable if each of these valleys were not the work of the stream that flows in it.

William Butler Yeats – I offer to love’s play, My dark declivities.

Sample sentences:

• The cabin is precariously perched on a declivity of the mountain’s eastern face.
• Resort lies on the declivity of a hill near the city junction.
• The most abrupt declivity of these mountains confronts the east coast, but the western slopes are merely inclined planes.
• My house is pleasantly situated under the north-eastern declivity of the Vindhya mountains.