きょくせつ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of きょくせつ – see the following entries.

【曲折】 [noun] a thing which twists and turns [noun] a change in state [noun] complicated circumstances; the details of said circumstances [verb] to twist and turn [verb] to change state

【曲説】 [noun] [from 1768] a bent or biased explanation or theory of something: a distortion, a twisted account of something [verb] [from 1768] to explain or theorize about something in a bent or biased manner: to distort or twist a description of something

(This term, きょくせつ (kyokusetsu), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)