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