sinuosity

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/ˌsɪnjuˈɒsɪti/

noun

The property of being sinuous.

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Meanings

nounsinuosity (countable and uncountable, plural sinuosities)

plural sinuosities

  1. countableuncountableThe property of being sinuous.

    Meander is a Riuer in Lycia, a Prouince of Natolia, or Aſia minor famous for the ſinuoſitie and often turning thereof, […]

    1597, Michaell [i.e., Michael] Drayton, “The Epistle of Rosamond to King Henry the Second. Notes of the Chronicle Historie”, in Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] Ling, […], →OCLC, folios 4, verso – 5, recto
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    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.

    1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC

    Synonyms: windiness

  2. countableuncountableThat which is sinuous.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe property of being sinuous.

Similar

More synonyms by meaning

nounhaving bends (especially of streams and roads)

Broader
curvecurved shape

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Bulgarian криволичене
  • криволичене (krivoličene)property of being sinuous
French sinuosité
  • sinuositéproperty of being sinuous
German Windungen
  • Windungenproperty of being sinuous
Irish lúbacht
  • lúbachtproperty of being sinuous
Italian sinuosità
  • sinuositàproperty of being sinuous
Portuguese sinuosidade
  • sinuosidadeproperty of being sinuous
Romanian sinuozitate
  • sinuozitateproperty of being sinuous
Spanish sinuosidad
  • sinuosidadproperty of being sinuous
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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sinuosity,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sinuosity.

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