Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being convoluted.
Analysts of morality must retreat from their subject far enough to examine the reasons for its convolutedness.
1993, Matthew H. Nitecki, Evolutionary Ethics, page 1922 more examples
Mr. D. J. Cunningham, of Dublin, in a communication addressed to our contemporary Nature, brings into evidence the theory of Zelgersina, who explains the convolutedness or otherwise of the brain on mechanical grounds.
1890, “How the Cerebral Convolutions are Produced”, in The Cincinnati Lancet-clinic, volume 64, page 233A classic way of measuring the degree of convolutedness of a brain has been to determine the exposed surface relative to the total surface of the cerebral cortex.
1978, Sydney Frost, Whales and whaling, page 189
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
- Proto-Italic*kom
- Proto-Italic*kom-
- Latincon-
- Proto-Indo-European*welH-
- Proto-Italic*wolwō
- Latinvolvō
- Latinconvolvō
- Latinconvolūtus
- Englishconvolute
- Englishconvoluted
- Englishconvolutedness
From convoluted + -ness.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish mutkikkuus, monimutkaisuus
- mutkikkuusquality of being convoluted
- monimutkaisuusquality of being convoluted
- kierteisyysquality of being convoluted
Polish zawiłość
- zawiłośćquality of being convoluted
Cite this entry
convolutedness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/convolutedness
“convolutedness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/convolutedness. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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