tortuousness
1tortuousness — index involution Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
2tortuousness — tortuous ► ADJECTIVE 1) full of twists and turns. 2) excessively lengthy and complex. DERIVATIVES tortuosity noun tortuously adverb tortuousness noun. ORIGIN Latin tortuosus, from torquere to twist …
3tortuousness — noun 1. puzzling complexity • Syn: ↑complicatedness, ↑complication, ↑knottiness • Derivationally related forms: ↑tortuous, ↑knotty (for: ↑knottiness), ↑ …
4Tortuousness — Tortuous Tor tu*ous, a. [OE. tortuos, L. tortuosus, fr. tortus a twisting, winding, fr. torquere, tortum, to twist: cf. F. tortueux. See {Torture}.] 1. Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous… …
5tortuousness — noun see tortuous …
6tortuousness — See tortuously. * * * …
7tortuousness — noun The property of being tortuous …
8tortuousness — n. quality of being twisted, being full of curves; zigzag; meandering, bending …
9tortuousness — n. See tortuosity …
10tortuousness — tor·tu·ous·ness …
