[prob. fr. techspeak manual +
granularity] 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).