manularity
/man`yoo-la'ri-tee/ [prob. fr. techspeak `manual'
+ `granularity'] n. A notional measure of the manual labor
required for some task, particularly one of the sort that
automation is supposed to eliminate. "Composing English on paper
has much higher manularity than using a text editor, especially in
the revising stage." Hackers tend to consider manularity a symptom
of primitive methods; in fact, a true hacker confronted with an
apparent requirement to do a computing task by hand will
inevitably seize the opportunity to build another tool (see
toolsmith).
