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Meaning of "tortuousness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TORTUOUSNESS

tortuousness  [ˈtɔːtʃʊəsnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TORTUOUSNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tortuousness 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 TORTUOUSNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of tortuousness in the English dictionary

The definition of tortuousness in the dictionary is the quality of being twisted or winding. Other definition of tortuousness is intricacy; complexity.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TORTUOUSNESS


ambiguousness
æmˈbɪɡjʊəsnəs
assiduousness
əˈsɪdjʊəsnəs
congruousness
ˈkɒŋɡrʊəsnəs
conspicuousness
kənˈspɪkjʊəsnəs
contemptuousness
kənˈtemptʃʊəsnəs
contiguousness
kənˈtɪɡjʊəsnəs
continuousness
kənˈtɪnjʊəsnəs
deciduousness
dɪˈsɪdjʊəsnəs
discontinuousness
ˌdɪskənˈtɪnjʊəsnəs
exiguousness
ɪɡˈzɪɡjʊəsnəs
incestuousness
ɪnˈsɛstʃʊəsnəs
inconspicuousness
ˌɪnkənˈspɪkjʊəsnəs
mellifluousness
mɛˈlɪflʊəsnəs
nocuousness
ˈnɒkjʊəsnəs
perspicuousness
ˌpəˈspɪkjʊəsnəs
spirituousness
ˈspɪrɪtjʊəsnəs
tenuousness
ˈtenjʊəsnəs
tumultuousness
tjuːˈmʌltʃʊəsnəs
vacuousness
ˈvækjʊəsnəs
virtuousness
ˈvɜːtʃʊəsnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TORTUOUSNESS

tortricid
tortrix
torts lawyer
Tortuga
tortuosities
tortuosity
tortuous
tortuously
torture
torture chamber
torture flight
torture porn
tortured
torturedly
torturer
torturesome
torturing
torturingly
torturous
torturously

WORDS THAT END LIKE TORTUOUSNESS

biliousness
business
carelessness
consciousness
deliciousness
deviousness
flawlessness
helplessness
hilariousness
homelessness
hopelessness
lawlessness
nervousness
preciousness
restlessness
ridiculousness
righteousness
seriousness
statelessness
unconsciousness
viciousness

Synonyms and antonyms of tortuousness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tortuousness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TORTUOUSNESS

Find out the translation of tortuousness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tortuousness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tortuousness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

曲折
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tortuosidad
570 millions of speakers

English

tortuousness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

tortuousness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الإلتواء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

tortuousness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tortuosidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কুটিলতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tortuosité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penyeksaan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

tortuousness
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

蛇行
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

tortuousness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tortuousness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tortuousness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

tortuousness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कष्टदायक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tortuousness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tortuousness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tortuousness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

tortuousness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tortuousness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

tortuousness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tortuousness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tortuousness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tortuousness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tortuousness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TORTUOUSNESS»

The term «tortuousness» is used very little and occupies the 186.272 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TORTUOUSNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «tortuousness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «tortuousness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TORTUOUSNESS»

Discover the use of tortuousness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tortuousness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Proceedings of the International Symposium on Engineering ...
The Boussa crack model is refined in this study by using fractal geometry-based curves to introduce the local tortuousness within the global crack segments represented by straight lines. The airflow study results from such refined model are ...
Subrata Chakraborty, Gautam Bhattacharya, 2013
2
Archives of Ophthalmology
Enlargement and tortuousness of the veins and abnormal redness of the papilla in the glaucomatous eye, with contracted pulsating retinal arteries, are proofs that , besides the increase of the intra-ocular pressure, there must exist another ...
‎1887
3
OTS.
Determination of Gorge Tortuousness Ld The tortuousness of channels is characterized by the relation 8 = — , where L . is the length of the actual line of the main gorge, measured between the watershed and the rated site, L-the same length, ...
United States. Dept. of Commerce. Office of Technical Services, 1961
4
The River-names of Europe
Hence the river-names from this root have in some cases the sense of rapidity, and in others of tortuousness ; and these two senses are somewhat at variance with each other, because tortuousness is more generally connected with slowness.
Robert Ferguson, 1862
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Faithful Labourers: a Reception History of Paradise Lost, ...
Eve talks like this because Adam has hurt her feelings and she wants him to know it. 'The lines are admittedly tortuous', Ricks writes, and they may well use a foreign idiom. But perhaps they use it, rather than merely copy it. Is tortuousness out ...
Assistant Professor Department of English John Leonard, John Leonard, 2012
6
New Challenges in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Microstructural findings signifi fi cantly related to gastric cancer were fi as follows: dilation, abrupt caliber alteration, heterogeneity in shape and tortuousness of microvessels, and complete or partial disappearance of FMS. Statistical analysis  ...
Hirohumi Niwa, Hisao Tajiri, Masatsugu Nakajima, 2009
7
Outlines of Human Physiology
Cause of the Tortuousness of certain Veins. 39 heart. But if an artery were frequently .lengthened and rendered tortuous, it is analogically certain that it would grow to this shape, and become permanently of the figure thus accidentally given to ...
Herbert Mayo, 1829
8
The Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga
Their function is to crush tortuousness in the [mental] body and in consciousness. They are manifested as non-crookedness. Their proximate cause is the [mental] body and consciousness. They should be regarded as opposed to deceit, fraud, ...
Buddhaghosa, 1991
9
A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel ...
Crookedness, sinuosity, curvature, bend, crook, winding, tortuousness. Tortuous, a. 1. Crooked, sinuous, circuitous, curved, curvilinear, curvilineal, sinuate, sinuated, winding, serpentine, bending in and out. 2. Perverse, circuitous, roundabout ...
Richard Soule, 1938
10
Wisdom Wide and Deep: A Practical Handbook for Mastering ...
Uprightness ofconsciousness—cittujjukata C: rectitude or straightness ofconsciousness F: tO crush tortuousness ofconsciousness BEAUTIFUL OCCASIONALS 1. Right speech—sammavaca C: nontransgression in the field. as honesty ...
Shaila Catherine, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TORTUOUSNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tortuousness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
From Meek To Mofo: Melissa McBride On Playing The Walking …
... in for long periods of time. It is, but it's also great because it just sort of feeds in and plays into the uncomfortable-ness and tortuousness of the apocalypse. «Co.Create, Feb 15»
2
Anjelica Huston's autobiography is the best memoir you'll read this …
As a reader, you long to fast forward the tortuousness of the first section and get on to the good luck that you can't help but see as her due. As a critic, it's easy to ... «GQ.com, Dec 14»
3
Italian Red Tape
... says SUIs were created “in 1998 and [have] yet to become fully effective”, highlighting them as an example of the “tortuousness and slow progress of reform”. «Corriere della Sera English, Apr 14»
4
Movie Review: Saheb Biwi aur Gangster Returns
Overlook a few technical tortuousness and you certainly don't mind returning to Saheb Biwi aur Gangster under Dhulia's direction. As for another swift sequel, ... «iDiva.com, Mar 13»
5
Reasons to Re-Joyce
The knots that tie Smith to Joyce are (as one reviewer has it) her “syntactic and structural tortuousness,” her “blink-and-you-might-miss-it obliqueness,” or (as ... «New York Times, Dec 12»
6
Worst College Essays 1989
I now find the tortuousness of the language exasperating—if I want a critique of locked-in intellectual systems, I read Nietzsche or William James—but Derrida's ... «New Yorker, Oct 11»
7
Southern Bound: 'Powder River' flows with frontier history
Only about three hundred miles in length, and a lot of these due to tortuousness. None of the more complimentary fluvial adjectives apply to it. Self-respecting ... «Press-Register - al.com, Aug 11»
8
A Building With 3 Facades, 8 Rentals and a School
But new luxury rentals in three adjoining vintage town houses at 35 East 63rd Street on the Upper East Side may have set a new standard in tortuousness. «New York Times, Aug 10»
9
Cockerill scalds referee while his Tigers run hot
His tortuousness probably masked Cockerill-like anger; each to his own. Shontayne Hape has been mentioned enough by Martin Johnson for him to expect to ... «Independent, Apr 10»
10
LIBBY PURVES: Profane, sniggering, rum-swigging: my merry hell …
The pleasure of a private company – after the tortuousness of the BBC – is that you can go straight to the MD in his office and work out a system whereby the ... «Daily Mail, Oct 09»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Tortuousness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/tortuousness>. May 2024 ».
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