knottiness

Questions about knottiness

What does knottiness mean?

knottiness means "puzzling complexity".

How many syllables are in knottiness?

knottiness has 3 syllables: knot-ti-ness. The stress falls on "knot".

What is another word for knottiness?

Close synonyms include complicatedness, complication, tortuousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is knottiness a common word?

knottiness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.