noun
a tortuous and twisted shape or position
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they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs
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the acrobat performed incredible contortions
• Syn: ↑tortuousness, ↑torsion, ↑contortion, ↑crookedness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑contortionist (for: ↑contortion), ↑contort (for: ↑contortion), ↑tortuous (for: ↑tortuousness), ↑tortuous
• Hypernyms: ↑distorted shape, ↑distortion
Useful english dictionary. 2012.