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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



... and approaches his creations with an open mind; but he cannot help feeling that this mode of composition represents the tortuousness of existence, and that its "truth" spreads golden above and about us, whether we accept her or not. He ends by bidding Master Hugues and the five speakers clear the arena; and leave him to "unstop the full organ," and "blare ...
— A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) • Mrs. Sutherland Orr


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


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