anfractuosity

Meaning

  1. (countable, uncountable) A winding channel or crevice, such as occur in the depths of the sea or in mountains.
  2. (countable, uncountable) One of the fissures (sulci) separating the convolutions of the brain, or, by analogy, in the mind.

Etymology

From Latin anfractuosus (“winding”).

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