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Definition of Sinuousness
1. Noun. Having curves. "He hated the sinuosity of mountain roads"
Definition of Sinuousness
1. Noun. The state or condition of being sinuous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sinuousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sinuousness
Literary usage of Sinuousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin (1853)
"... from the lax bending of a broken cord, nor the sinuousness of the edge of the
leaf, crushed into deep folds by the expansion of its living growth, ..."
2. The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin (1867)
"... from the lax bending of a broken cord, nor the sinuousness of the edge of the
leaf, crushed into deep folds by the expansion of its living growth, ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1906)
"... overwhelmed in straight draperies, appear almost to be walking in shrouds ;
and his rare nudes have little sinuousness of line or beauty of conception. ..."
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