different between crookedness vs tortuosity

English

crooked +? -ness

crookedness (countable and uncountable, plural crookednesses)

The state of being crooked
- 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, "Mean Baby," [3]
  She had cost me two tenants and no end of sleep, had heated my temper to boiling, yet, somehow I could not hate that baby. The meanest thing about her was the way she could make you feel yourself. One has to make a living and one must sleep. It is one of the crookednesses of life when a little yellow-haired baby can cause you so much trouble and yet won't even let you hate her.

tortuo(u)s +? -ity, from Latin tortuositas; compare French tortuosité.

tortuosity (countable and uncountable, plural tortuosities)

crookedness
(physics) A property of curve being tortuous, commonly used to describe diffusion in porous media.

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