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Tortuousness   Listen
Tortuousness

noun
1.
A tortuous and twisted shape or position.  Synonyms: contortion, crookedness, torsion, tortuosity.  "The acrobat performed incredible contortions"
2.
Puzzling complexity.  Synonyms: complicatedness, complication, knottiness.





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"Tortuousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... find the place, and in their despair guessed at its real situation. There are many ways to St. George's—you can get to it from Fishergate, Lune- street, Friargate, or the Market place; but if each of those ways was thrown into one complete whole, the road would still be fifteenth rate. Tortuousness and dimness mark them, and a strong backyard spirit of adventure must operate largely in the minds of some who manage ...
— Our Churches and Chapels • Atticus


Words linked to "Tortuousness" :   complexity, tortuous, distorted shape, distortion, complexness


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