KNOTTINESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Puzzling complexity

Synonyms:

complicatedness; complication; knottiness; tortuousness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("knottiness" is a kind of...):

complexity; complexness (the quality of being intricate and compounded)

Derivation:

knotty (making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe)

knotty (highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious)