sinuosity
English
Noun
sinuosity (countable and uncountable, plural sinuosities)
- The property of being sinuous.
- 1597, Michael Drayton, “[Englands Heroicall Epistles.] The Epistle of Rosamond to King Henry the Second. Notes of the Chronicle Historie.”, in Poems: […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Iohn Smethwicke, […], published 1613, OCLC 79632854, folios 4, verso – 5, recto:
- Meander is a Riuer in Lycia, a Prouince of Natolia, or Aſia minor famous for the ſinuoſitie and often turning thereof, […]
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
- She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.
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Synonyms
- windiness (the state of being windy)
Translations
property of being sinuous
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