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SINUOUSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sinuousness mean?
• SINUOUSNESS (noun)
The noun SINUOUSNESS has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: SINUOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having curves
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Synonyms:
sinuosity; sinuousness
Context example:
he hated the sinuosity of mountain roads
Hypernyms ("sinuousness" is a kind of...):
curve; curved shape (the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes)
Derivation:
sinuous (gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease)
sinuous (curved or curving in and out)
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