knottiness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun puzzling complexity
    tortuousness; complicatedness; complication.

WordNet

Knot"ti*ness noun
Etymology
From Knotty.
Definitions
  1. The quality or state of being knotty or full of knots.
  2. Difficulty of solution; intricacy; complication. " Knottiness of his style." Hare.

Webster 1913