What does tortuosity mean?
Tortuosity means tortuousness; tortuous condition or nature..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
tortuousness; tortuous condition or nature..
So far from seeking to "pettifogulise"—i.e., to find evasions for any purpose in a trickster's minute tortuosities of construction—exactly in the opposite direction, from mere excess of sincerity, most unwillingly I found, in almost everybody's words, an unintentional opening left for double interpretations.
Use tortuosity when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tortuosity means tortuousness; tortuous condition or nature..
Common synonyms include torsion, contortion, crookedness, tortuousness.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
So far from seeking to "pettifogulise"—i.e., to find evasions for any purpose in a trickster's minute tortuosities of construction—exactly in the opposite direction, from mere excess of sincerity, most unwillingly I found, in almost everybody's words, an unintentional opening left for double interpretations.
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