tortuosity
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.32 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "So far from seeking to "pettifogulise"—i.e., to find evasions for any purpose in a trickster's minute tortuosities of construction—exactly in the opposite direction, from mere excess of sincerity, most unwillingly I found, in almost everybody's words, an unintentional opening left for double interpretations."
Etymology
From tortuo(u)s + -ity, from Latin tortuositas; compare French tortuosité.
Origin
- Source language: Latin