English noun: tortuousness | |||
1. | tortuousness (shape) a tortuous and twisted shape or position | ||
Samples | They built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs. The acrobat performed incredible contortions. | ||
Synonyms | contortion, crookedness, torsion, tortuosity | ||
Broader (hypernym) | distorted shape, distortion | ||
2. | tortuousness (attribute) puzzling complexity | ||
Synonyms | complicatedness, complication, knottiness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | complexity, complexness | ||