sinuosity

English

sinuosity (countable and uncountable, plural sinuosities)

The property of being sinuous.
- 1597, Michael Drayton, “[Englands Heroicall Epistles.] The Epistle of Rosamond to King Henry the Second. Notes of the Chronicle Historie.”, in Poems: […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Iohn Smethwicke, […], published 1613, OCLC 79632854, 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, […]
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎:
  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.

property of being sinuous

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