Tortuosity (Noun)
Meaning
A tortuous and twisted shape or position; "they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs"; "the acrobat performed incredible contortions".
Classification
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes.
Examples
- The roots of the ancient tree twisted in impossible tortuosities as they stretched toward the sunlight.
- Her tiny body could contort into astonishing tortuosities as she folded herself into tiny spaces.
- In the fantastical landscape of dreams the twisting road rose up into tortuosities that defied the laws of reality.
- Within the eerie landscape the maze walls towered into gothic tortuosities, silhouetted by flickering candles.
- After centuries the slow action of waves on rock sculpted labyrinthine passages with fantastical tortuosities and smooth beauty.