Associations to the word «Contortion»

Wiktionary

CONTORTION, noun. The act of contorting, twisting or deforming something, especially oneself.
CONTORTION, noun. A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.

Dictionary definition

CONTORTION, noun. The act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself).
CONTORTION, noun. A tortuous and twisted shape or position; "they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs"; "the acrobat performed incredible contortions".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin