tortuousness
noun[U]
uk/ˈtɔː.tʃu.əs.nəs/us/ˈtɔːr.tʃu.əs.nəs/thequalityof not beingdirectorsimple, or of having manyturnsandchangesofdirection:
Hisspeechhad acuriousmixtureofdirectnessand tortuousness.
The tortuousness of theroadsaffectedcarsmore thangoodsvehicles.
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tortuous
- Thesheertortuousness of thebureaucracycreatesaseeminglyimpenetrablewall.
- Thewholeof thisspeechisremarkablefor tortuousness ofarrangement, and round-aboutexpression.
- thetensionand tortuousness offamilyrelationships
Complexity
- advanced
- all-singing
- baroque
- be more tosomethingthan meets the eyeidiom
- bleeding-edge
- delicacy
- finicky
- high-tech
- indirectly
- insolubility
- intractability
- multifarious
- onerousness
- ornate
- ornately
- over-elaborate
- tortuous
- tortuously
- ultra-sophisticated
- wheels within wheelsidiom
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