noun
- A tortuous and twisted shape or position.
- usage: "they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs"; "the acrobat performed incredible contortions"
- synonyms: tortuosity, torsion, contortion, crookedness
- Puzzling complexity.
- synonyms: complicatedness, complication, knottiness
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