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TORTUOUSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tortuousness mean?
• TORTUOUSNESS (noun)
The noun TORTUOUSNESS has 2 senses:
1. a tortuous and twisted shape or position
2. puzzling complexity
Familiarity information: TORTUOUSNESS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tortuous and twisted shape or position
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Synonyms:
contortion; crookedness; torsion; tortuosity; tortuousness
Context example:
the acrobat performed incredible contortions
Hypernyms ("tortuousness" is a kind of...):
distorted shape; distortion (a shape resulting from distortion)
Derivation:
tortuous (marked by repeated turns and bends)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Puzzling complexity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
complicatedness; complication; knottiness; tortuousness
Hypernyms ("tortuousness" is a kind of...):
complexity; complexness (the quality of being intricate and compounded)
Derivation:
tortuous (not straightforward)
tortuous (highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious)
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