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SINUOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sinuousness mean? 

SINUOUSNESS (noun)
  The noun SINUOUSNESS has 1 sense:

1. having curvesplay

  Familiarity information: SINUOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SINUOUSNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Having curves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

sinuosity; sinuousness

Context example:

he hated the sinuosity of mountain roads

Hypernyms ("sinuousness" is a kind of...):

curve; curved shape (the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes)

Derivation:

sinuous (gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease)

sinuous (curved or curving in and out)


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