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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



... unsuspicious, and would scarcely see a monster in a minotaur. It is well, however, to draw good out of evil, and it is the peculiar gift of an elevated mind. Nevertheless, you must have observed, although with greater curiosity than concern, the slipperiness and tortuousness of your detractors. ...
— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor


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


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