tortuousness
Full of turns
Tortuousness is the quality of being full of twists, turns, or bends.
A mountain road has tortuousness when it winds back and forth up a slope.
The word extends to anything indirect or overly complicated: the tortuousness of bureaucratic procedures, the tortuousness of his reasoning.
Where a straight path would do, tortuousness takes the long way.
Bendiness of a path
- curvatureDeviation from flatness
- meanderingFollowing a winding course
- serpentineCurving in repeated bends
- twistingRotating with distortion
coiling · spiraling · convolution · bendiness · crookedness · circuitousness · snaking · undulation
State of elaborate complexity
- convolutionTwisting or mathematical integration
- labyrinthineExtremely complex and winding
- knottinessComplex, tangled quality
- elaborationDevelopment through detail
complication · entanglement · nuance · difficulty · obscurity · abstruseness · involution · perplexity
Lack of directness
- roundaboutnessQuality of being indirect
- obliquenessLack of directness
- evasivenessTendency to avoid directness
- circumlocutionIndirect, wordy expression
deviousness · ambiguity · digression · tangentiality · meandering · verbosity · equivocation · obfuscation
sinuosity
Bendiness of a path
- curvatureDeviation from flatness
- meanderingFollowing a winding course
- serpentineCurving in repeated bends
twisting · coiling · spiraling · convolution · bendiness · crookedness · circuitousness · snaking · undulation · curlicue
intricacy
State of elaborate complexity
- convolutionTwisting or mathematical integration
- labyrinthineExtremely complex and winding
- knottinessComplex, tangled quality
elaboration · complication · entanglement · nuance · difficulty · obscurity · abstruseness · involution · perplexity · denseness
circuitousness
Lack of directness
- roundaboutnessQuality of being indirect
- obliquenessLack of directness
- evasivenessTendency to avoid directness
circumlocution · deviousness · ambiguity · digression · tangentiality · meandering · verbosity · equivocation · obfuscation · vagueness
tortuousnessstraightness
Absence of curvature
directness · linearity · straightforwardness · evenness · regularity
tortuousnessdirectness
Quality of being straightforward
straightforwardness · forthrightness · plainness · clarity · candor
torture, torment, retort, distort, distortion, contort, extort, extortion, tortured