NODOSITY

Definitions: NODOSITY

NODOSITY

Noun

1. A knot; a node.

2. The quality of being knotty or nodose; resemblance to a node or swelling; knottiness.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Nodosity \No*dos"i*ty\, noun. [Latin expression nodositas.]. (Websters 1913)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Convexity	Tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump; sugar loaf; (sharpness); bow; mamelon; molar; belly, corporation, pot belly, gut; withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange.
Roughness	Noun: roughness; Adjective: tooth, grain, texture, ripple; asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity; arborescence; pilosity.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Language		Translations for "NODOSITY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		nyjëtim (toggle). (various references)

Arabic		‏كثرة العقد, ‏العقدية, ‏العجرية. (various references)

Bulgarian		чепатост, възловатост. (various references)

Czech		uzlovitost. (various references)

Danish		nodositet (nodesity, nodositas), nodositas (nodesity, nodositas), knudrethed (nodesity, nodositas), knudret fortykkelse (nodesity, nodositas), knudedannelse (nodesity, nodositas), knude (atrioventricular node, burbot, droplet, eel pout, knot, netting knot, nodal point, node, nodesity, nodositas, nodule, nodus, snarl, tear drop, tubercle, vertex). (various references)

Dutch		nodositeit (nodesity, nodositas), nodositas (nodesity, nodositas). (various references)

French		nodus (node, nodesity, nodositas), nodosité (node, nodesity, nodositas). (various references)

German		Nodositas (nodesity, nodositas), Nodosität (nodesity, nodositas), Knoten (bun, burl, chignon, corner, crossroads, hitch, intersection, junction, kink, kinks, knop, knot, knurl, knurls, lump, netting knot, nodal, nodal point, node, nodes, nodesity, nodositas, nodule, nodus, plot, snarl, stringy knot, to kink, to knot, tophus, tuber, vertex). (various references)

Greek		οξώδης κατάστασις (nodesity, nodositas), οξώδης (nodesity, nodositas). (various references)

Hebrew		קשריות, קטריות. (various references)

Hungarian		csomósság. (various references)

Italian		nodosit� (gnarl, knottiness, lump, nodesity, nodositas). (various references)

Manx		uddanys (knottiness), glioonaght. (various references)

Pig Latin		odositynay

Portuguese		nodosidade (kinkle, nodesity, nodositas, Nodus). (various references)

Romanian		nodozitate (nodule), nod (bend, bow, Burl, gnarl, half-hitch, joint, kink, knar, knob, knot, knurl, loop, lump, node, noose, snub). (various references)

Russian		утолщение (boss, bulb, node, nub, thickening), узловатость. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		čvornovatost. (various references)

Spanish		nudosidad (nodesity, nodositas, nodule). (various references)

Swedish		knutighet. (various references)

Turkish		düğüm (gradient, knot, loop, nodal, node, nodule, tangle, tie, twist), boğumluluk, bezecik (node, nodule). (various references)

Ukranian		вузлуватість, потовщення (node, nose, nub, thickening, thickness). (various references)

Vietnamese		trạng thái nhiều mắt, bướu cứng. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	nodus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Words rhyming with "NODOSITY" (pronounced 'No*dos"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-i-n-o-o-s-t-y"
	-2 letters: ootids, snooty, tondos, toyons.
	-3 letters: dints, ditsy, doits, donsy, noisy, odist, ootid, snood, snoot, sooty, stony, stood, synod, tondi, tondo, toons, toyon, toyos, yonis.
	-4 letters: dins, dint, dits, doit, dons, dost, dots, doty, into, ions, nits, nodi, nods, nosy, onto, oots, snit, snot, soon, soot, tidy, tins, tiny, tods, tody, tons, tony, toon.
	Words containing the letters "d-i-n-o-o-s-t-y"
	+3 letters: dicynodonts, endocytosis, isoantibody.
	+4 letters: dicotyledons, endosymbiont.
	+5 letters: disconformity, endosymbionts, endosymbiotic, sedimentology, storyboarding.
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