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English
Etymology
From sinuous + -ity.
Pronunciation
Noun
sinuosity (countable and uncountable, plural sinuosities)
- The property of being sinuous.
- Synonym: windiness
1597, Michaell Draiton [i.e., Michael Drayton], “[Englands Heroicall Epistles.] The Epistle of Rosamond to King Henry the Second. Notes of the Chronicle Historie.”, in Poems: , London: [Valentine Simmes] for N Ling, published 1605, →OCLC, folios 4, verso – 5, recto:Meander is a Riuer in Lycia, a Prouince of Natolia, or Aſia minor famous for the ſinuoſitie and often turning thereof, […]
1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC: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.
- That which is sinuous.
Translations
property of being sinuous