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PRONUNCIATION OF CONTORTEDNESS

contortedness  [kənˈtɔːtɪdnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONTORTEDNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Contortedness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CONTORTEDNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of contortedness in the English dictionary

The definition of contortedness in the dictionary is the quality of being contorted.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONTORTEDNESS


assortedness
əˈsɔːtɪdnəs
cold-heartedness
ˌkəʊldˈhɑːtɪdnəs
conceitedness
kənˈsiːtɪdnəs
convolutedness
ˈkɒnvəˌluːtɪdnəs
disconcertedness
ˌdɪskənˈsɜːtɪdnəs
downheartedness
ˌdaʊnˈhɑːtɪdnəs
good-heartedness
ˌɡʊdˈhɑːtɪdnəs
half-heartedness
ˌhɑːfˈhɑːtɪdnəs
hardheartedness
ˌhɑːdˈhɑːtɪdnəs
heatedness
ˈhiːtɪdnəs
kind-heartedness
ˌkaɪndˈhɑːtɪdnəs
light-heartedness
ˌlaɪtˈhɑːtɪdnəs
open-heartedness
ˌəʊpənˈhɑːtɪdnəs
pervertedness
pəˈvɜːtɪdnəs
pollutedness
pəˈluːtɪdnəs
softheartedness
ˌsɒftˈhɑːtɪdnəs
stoutheartedness
ˌstaʊtˈhɑːtɪdnəs
transportedness
trænˈspɔːtɪdnəs
warm-heartedness
ˌwɔːmˈhɑːtɪdnəs
wholeheartedness
ˌhəʊlˈhɑːtɪdnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONTORTEDNESS

conto
contorniate
contorno
contort
contorted
contortedly
contortion
contortional
contortionate
contortioned
contortionism
contortionist
contortionistic
contortive
contour
contour feather
contour flying
contour interval
contour line
contour map

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONTORTEDNESS

awkwardness
baldness
blindness
boldness
business
fondness
goodness
hardness
indebtedness
kindness
loudness
madness
mindedness
oddness
preparedness
redness
sadness
soundness
tiredness
weirdness
wickedness

Synonyms and antonyms of contortedness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «contortedness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONTORTEDNESS

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Translator English - Chinese

contortedness
1,325 millions of speakers

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contortedness
570 millions of speakers

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contortedness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

contortedness
380 millions of speakers
ar

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contortedness
280 millions of speakers

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contortedness
278 millions of speakers

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contortedness
270 millions of speakers

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contortedness
260 millions of speakers

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contortedness
220 millions of speakers

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Contortedness
190 millions of speakers

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contortedness
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

contortedness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

contortedness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Contortedness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

contortedness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

contortedness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कॉन्ट्रॅक्शन्स
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

contortedness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

contortedness
65 millions of speakers

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contortedness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

contortedness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

contortedness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

contortedness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

contortedness
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

contortedness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

contortedness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of contortedness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONTORTEDNESS»

The term «contortedness» is used very little and occupies the 170.562 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONTORTEDNESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about contortedness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONTORTEDNESS»

Discover the use of contortedness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to contortedness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Further Advances in Twistor Theory: Volume II: Integrable ...
Penrose (§11.4.15,20) suggested modifications in the integrand defining Aap motivated by the study of various contorted 2-surfaces. The idea of dealing with contortedness by complex conformal transformations (since Ja(3), as noted above, ...
L.J. Mason, L. Hughston, 1995
2
Postcolonial Resistance and Asian Theology
Bhabha bases his argument on the fact that the mimic wo/man, being only a partial representation, a part-object of the colonizer, returns the mirror image of the colonizer in a contorted form. The contortedness, because it is felt, necessarily ...
Simon Shui-Man Kwan, 2013
3
THE GARDENER'S MAGAZINE
J. C. K. Levant Lodge. To the seeds of Cucumis flexuosus sent, the seeds from Mr . Oliver's mango cucumber (No. 1.) bear, in contortedness, colour, and in size, except that they are shorter and broader, close resemblance. The seeds (No. 2.)  ...
J.C. LOUDON, F.L.S. H.S. &C, 1833
4
Dynamics of Detour: Codes of Indirection in Montaigne, ...
At once, the encoded instability, non-fixity, unremitting contortedness of point of view is marked, the frailty of esthetic distance provisionally and spuriously established, and a dichotomy (distancement) between writer and reader ( between ...
Richard L. Barnett, 1986
5
The Sonic Self: Musical Subjectivity and Signification
Just a little excess, however, and you have bathos, or ridiculous sentimentality, postures of the tragic, or a warbling contortedness that conveys no more than nostalgia tor something once felt, whose life and conviction have been lost.
Naomi Cumming, 2000
6
The Columbia History of American Poetry
The poem bears Tate's mark in its focus on something contorted, painful, and difficult (here, the body of Pope), accompanied by a language equally compacted . Tate here confronts the way Mr. Pope's contortedness and separate- ness ...
Jay Parini, Brett Candlish Millier, 2013
7
The universal etymological English dictionary
CONTORTED (conterties, L.) wreathed CONTORTEDNESS, wreathednefs. Geod CONTRACT (in Law) a covenant or agreement with a lawful cause or consideration, as when a sum of money is given for the lease of a manor, &c. or where one ...
Nathan Bailey, 1776
8
Rush Rhees on Religion and Philosophy
Still what?) The loss (damnation) or salvation of a soul is not, as it were, a quality of something (like the smoothness of wrinkledness or contortedness of a man's features, face). The loss of, or 234 Religion, life and meaning.
Rush Rhees, Dewi Zephaniah Phillips, Mario Von der Ruhr, 1997
9
Twistors in Mathematics and Physics
If one wants to make some connection between contortedness and torsion then one might begin by modifying the fundamental identity (1) in the presence of torsion. For the case of the linearised Einstein-Cartan-Sciama-Kibble (ECSK) theory ...
T. N. Bailey, R. J. Baston, 1990
10
Suicides and Jazzers
He may have seen very early that he needed something different from their styles , plainer than Schwartz's Marlovian grandness, simpler and easier than Berrymans' contortedness. This would have been in keeping with his desire to be  ...
Hayden Carruth, 1992

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Contortedness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/contortedness>. Apr 2024 ».
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