convolutedness

convoluted +‎ -ness

convolutedness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being convoluted.
   • 1890, “How the Cerebral Convolutions are Produced”, in The Cincinnati Lancet-clinic, volume 64, page 233:

     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.

   • 1978, Sydney Frost, Whales and whaling, page 189:

     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.

   • 1993, Matthew H. Nitecki, Evolutionary Ethics, page 192:

     Analysts of morality must retreat from their subject far enough to examine the reasons for its convolutedness.