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noun

Sinuosity n. (pl. sinuosities)

Quality or state of being sinuous.

A bend, or a series of bends and turns; a winding, or a series of windings; a wave line; a curve. "A line of coast certainly amounting, with its sinuosities, to more than 700 miles."

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Etymology of 'Sinuosity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sinuosity" Quotes from Famous Books

... eight to examine the river Brent at Hendon; a mere brooklet, running in most dainty sinuosity under overshadowing oaks and all manner of leafiness. Many beauties, and hard to choose amongst, for I had determined to make a little picture of it. However, Nature, that at first sight appears so lovely, is on consideration almost always incomplete; moreover, there is no painting intertangled ...

— The Mind of the Artist - Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art • Various

... after the more genuine Olympians had broken out of them. The school of Praxiteles, as distinguished from that of Pheidias, is especially the school of grace, relaxing a little the severe ethical tension of the latter, in favour of a slightly Asiatic sinuosity and tenderness. Pausanias tells us that he carved the two goddesses for the temple of Demeter at Athens; and Pliny speaks of two groups of his in brass, the one representing the stealing of Persephone, the ...

— Greek Studies: A Series of Essays • Walter Horatio Pater

Words linked to "Sinuosity" : sinuous, curved shape