tortuousness

Examples

• All

• The tortuousness of his argument left everyone confused.

• Can you believe the tortuousness of this legal document?

• She admired the tortuousness of the old vine that crept along the fence.

• The tortuousness of the mountain trail made our hike challenging.

• The tortuousness of the mountain road made it hard to navigate through the bends.

• Everyone struggled with the tortuousness of his explanation during the meeting.

• The tortuousness of the plot in the novel kept readers guessing until the end.

Synonyms

C

complexity

vstortuousness

166 5.0

Many connected parts make something hard to understand

keeps many interconnected parts but stresses twisting, convoluted paths

A

abstruseness

vstortuousness

• Formal

1 9.9

Difficulty understanding something because it is complex or unclear

is similar in difficulty but highlights physical or conceptual twisting rather than obscurity

T

tortuosity

vstortuousness

• Specialized

9.9

A path or shape that bends a lot

is similar but also stresses complex difficulty to follow rather than only shape

T

twistiness

vstortuousness

4.8

A series of twists and turns, like a winding road

includes those twists but adds the idea of being hard to follow conceptually

I

involution

vstortuousness

9.9

A complicated structure in writing or speech that is hard to follow

focuses more on winding form and being hard to follow than structure alone

K

knottiness

vstortuousness

9.4

A quality that makes something hard to understand or solve

shares difficulty but leans more toward winding form rather than pure problem difficulty

C

complicatedness

vstortuousness

7.0

The state of having many connected parts that are hard to understand

adds the image of twists and turns, not only many connected parts

C

complexness

vstortuousness

7.1

Having many parts or details that are hard to understand

adds an extra sense of winding difficulty beyond mere intricacy

A

abstrusity

vstortuousness

• Formal

9.9

The quality of being very difficult to understand because it is complex

also involves deep difficulty but adds the idea of twists and turns

R

reconditeness

vstortuousness

• Formal

9.9

Difficulty understanding something because it is very complex

overlaps on difficulty but focuses more on winding, tangled form than on obscurity

I

impenetrability

vstortuousness

9.9

Very hard to understand because the ideas are unclear or complicated

is similar in unreadability but stresses twisted, convoluted structure rather than pure obscurity

Antonyms

C

clarity

152 3.0

How easy it is to understand what someone says or writes

S

simplicity

63 1.7

Being easy to understand and not complicated

How Winding

intricacy

23 6.7

tortuousness

9.9

winding

2.7

curvature

• Specialized

8 5.4

straightness

1 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology