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Meanings of tortuousness in English

Catalan
torsió
Spanish
torsión

A tortuous and twisted shape or position.

torsió
Portuguese
complicação
Catalan
complicació
Spanish
complejidad

Puzzling complexity.

complicação
Synonyms
Examples for "complication"
Examples for "complication"
1
However, with increasing age, RP was associated with significantly higher complication rates.
Pubmed
2
Mr Cocker said the game added another complication for children and parents.
Radio NZ
3
Severe rejection may lead to graft loss, a complication difficult to predict.
Pubmed
4
Context: Pheochromocytoma crisis is a feared and potentially lethal complication of pheochromocytoma.
Pubmed
5
But recently, a study published in Nature Medicine introduced a worrying complication.
Wired
1
This conversation gave Montague a new sense of the complicatedness of the world into which he had come.
The Metropolis
2
This translation will change the way the poem is read in English Part of this complicatedness is its polyphonic nature.
The Guardian
1
But the knottiness of the plot and the brilliance of the performances mark it apart.
The Irish Times
2
Who can disentangle that twisted and intricate knottiness?
The Confessions of St. Augustine
Usage of tortuousness in English
1
His mind occupied itself at first chiefly with the tortuousness and weakness of his own character.
The Soul of a Bishop
2
This transaction, taken in connection with the tortuousness of his public course, explains the distrust I have always expressed for him.
Democracy, an American novel
3
The tortuousness of the route must have made the journey twice as long as it need have been with a little more careful selection.
The Mystery of 31 New Inn
4
It was horrible that nowadays, in thinking of Susy, he should always suspect ulterior motives, be meanly on the watch for some hidden tortuousness.
The Glimpses of the Moon
Frequent collocations
Translations for tortuousness
Portuguese
complicação
Tortuousness through the time