KNOTTINESS

complicatedness, complication, knottiness, tortuousness

(noun) puzzling complexity

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

knottiness (countable and uncountable, plural knottinesses)

The state of being knotty.

Anagrams

• stinkstone

Source: Wiktionary


Knot"ti*ness, n. Etym: [From Knotty.]

1. The quality or state of being knotty or full of knots.

2. Difficulty of solution; intricacy; complication. " Knottiness of his style." Hare.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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