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What is the noun for tortious?

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tort
  1. An injury or wrong. [from the mid-13th c.]
  2. (law) A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through awarding damages. [from the later 16th c.]
  3. (torts) The area of law dealing with such wrongful acts.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. offence, offense, wrongdoing, misdeed, misdemeanour, misdemeanor, unlawful act, illegal act, wrongful act, crime, wrong, transgression, violation, iniquity, malfeasance, scandal, outrage, abomination, atrocity, evil, felony, criminality, delinquency, trespass, malefaction, villainy, breach, fault, injury, illegality, enormity, misconduct, infringement, infraction, abuse, sin, obscenity, corruption, barbarity, vice, racket, injustice, affront, hit, caper, delictum, delict, horror, fast one, mortal sin … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “The tort is the same tort as that in respect of which the claim is made against us.”
tortfeasance
  1. (chiefly law) The condition, or an act, of doing wrong; the act of committing a tort.
tort
  1. (slang) A tortoiseshell (animal with coloured markings on fur).
  2. Synonyms:
      3. offence, offense, wrongdoing, misdeed, misdemeanour, misdemeanor, unlawful act, illegal act, wrongful act, crime, wrong, transgression, violation, iniquity, malfeasance, scandal, outrage, abomination, atrocity, evil, felony, criminality, delinquency, trespass, malefaction, villainy, breach, fault, injury, illegality, enormity, misconduct, infringement, infraction, abuse, sin, obscenity, corruption, barbarity, vice, racket, injustice, affront, hit, caper, delictum, delict, horror, fast one, mortal sin … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The tort is the same tort as that in respect of which the claim is made against us.”
tortfeasor
  1. (law) A person who commits a tort.
  2. Examples:
      3. “As between a claimant and a tortfeasor the onus is on the latter to show that the former has unreasonably neglected to mitigate the damages.”
      “It does no more than make clear the extent of the liability for the tort in which the tortfeasor joins and thus does not advance the analysis.”
      “The act must be one committed within the jurisdiction by the alleged tortfeasor, not the victim.”
tortness
  1. The state or quality of suffering from tort.
tortuousness
  1. The property of being tortuous.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. convolution, complexity, complication, intricacy, complicacy, difficulty, convolutedness, involvement, perplexity, complexness, complicatedness, entanglement, knottiness, maze, circularity, circuitousness, obliqueness, roundaboutness, indirectness, rambling, deviousness, opacity, obscureness, circumlocution, opaqueness, bendiness, elasticity, flexibility, limberness, pliability, suppleness, crookedness, contortedness, curvedness, distortedness … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Murrayfield's media centre, the usual home for the tautology and tortuousness of Scottish rugby-speak, was never like this.”
      “The tortuousness of the judiciary, however frustrating it is, does not mutate him from suspect to terrorist.”
      “The sequence also offers examples of the way White exploited the talent of trees for symbolizing tortuousness.”
tort
  1. (slang) A tortoise.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. offence, offense, wrongdoing, misdeed, misdemeanour, misdemeanor, unlawful act, illegal act, wrongful act, crime, wrong, transgression, violation, iniquity, malfeasance, scandal, outrage, abomination, atrocity, evil, felony, criminality, delinquency, trespass, malefaction, villainy, breach, fault, injury, illegality, enormity, misconduct, infringement, infraction, abuse, sin, obscenity, corruption, barbarity, vice, racket, injustice, affront, hit, caper, delictum, delict, horror, fast one, mortal sin … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The tort is the same tort as that in respect of which the claim is made against us.”
torts
  1. plural of tort
  2. (law) The area of civil law dealing with wrongful acts, excluding breaches of trust or contract, resulting in injury to someone's person, reputation, property, etc, and for which that injured party may have a right to receive compensation.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. offences, offenses, wrongdoing, misdeeds, misdemeanours, misdemeanors, scandals, violation, transgression, crime, iniquities, wrongs, malfeasances, outrage, atrocity, abominations, felonies, faults, injury, breaches, delinquencies, criminality, evil, villainy, enormity, trespass, malefactions, illegality, injustice, infractions, vices, obscenity, misconduct, sins, capers, corruption, abuse, delicts, mortal sin, affronts, rackets, barbarity, horror, hits, infringement, monstrosities, disgrace, evildoings, blows, peccancies … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “It contains chapters on contracts, torts, restitution, property, and equity.”
      “The Tribunal administers the tort of negligence, the torts connected with breach of statutory duty.”
      “All three have their important place in the law of torts, but the liability attached to them will differ.”
tortuousnesses
  1. plural of tortuousness
  2. Synonyms:
      3. convolutions, complexities, complications, intricacies, complicacies, difficulties, convolutedness, involvements, perplexities, complexness, complicatednesses, entanglements, knottinesses, mazes, circularities, circuitousness, obliquenesses, roundaboutness, indirectnesses, ramblings, deviousnesses, periphrases, verbosities, verbiages, wordinesses, prolixities, redundancies, verboseness, diffusenesses, garrulities, windinesses, verbalisms, garrulousness, diffusions, logorrheas, wordages, circumlocutions, long-windedness, tautologies, pleonasms, discursiveness, repetitions, gassiness, perissologies, superfluities, circumambages, bendiness, elasticities … more
tortfeasors
  1. plural of tortfeasor
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