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KNOTTINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does knottiness mean?
• KNOTTINESS (noun)
The noun KNOTTINESS has 1 sense:
1. puzzling complexity
Familiarity information: KNOTTINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Puzzling complexity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
complicatedness; complication; knottiness; tortuousness
Hypernyms ("knottiness" is a kind of...):
complexity; complexness (the quality of being intricate and compounded)
Derivation:
knotty (making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe)
knotty (highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious)
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