contortion

Nouns

  • (n) the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself) deformation,
  • (n) a tortuous and twisted shape or position
    • they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs
    • the acrobat performed incredible contortions
    crookedness, torsion, tortuosity, tortuousness,

Synonyms

deformation crookedness torsion tortuosity tortuousness

Words of close approximity

contortionist