The Collaborative International Dictionary
Circuity \Cir*cu"i*ty\, n. A going round in a circle; a course not direct; a roundabout way of proceeding.
Wiktionary
n. A circuitous plan; a roundabout way of doing something
Usage examples of "circuity".
Harrison Cooper had spent the better part of his third decade wiring circuities of impossible pasts and as yet untouchable futures.
In general, she concluded, my mode of operation in this second enterprise must be contrary to my first's: on the one hand, direct instead of indirect -- no circuities, circumlocutions, reflections, or ruses -- on the other, rather passive than active: beyond a certain point I must permit things to come to me instead of adventuring to them.
The most wanton and studied circuity of transportation has been practised: to mention only one act, they have bought quantities of flour for these troops in Cumberland, have ordered it to be wagoned down to Manchester, and wagoned thence up to the barracks.