convolutedness

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English

Etymology

From convoluted +‎ -ness.

Noun

convolutedness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being convoluted.
    • 1890, “How the Cerebral Convolutions are Produced”, in The Cincinnati Lancet-clinic, volume 64, page 233:
      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.
    • 1978, Sydney Frost, Whales and whaling, page 189:
      A 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.
    • 1993, Matthew H. Nitecki, Evolutionary Ethics, page 192:
      Analysts of morality must retreat from their subject far enough to examine the reasons for its convolutedness.

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