tortuosity
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a tortuous and twisted shape or position
they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs
Types & categories
- distorted shape hypernym
Related & opposite
- contortionist derivation
- wring derivation
- twisting derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | contortionist |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | wring |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | twisting |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | distorted shape |