intricacy

  • 11intricacy — noun 1 (countable usually plural) one of the small parts or details that together form a pattern, system, method etc: the intricacies of: I still haven t mastered the intricacies of the filing system. 2 (U) the state of containing a large number… …

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  • 12intricacy — noun (plural cies) Date: 1602 1. the quality or state of being intricate 2. something intricate < the intricacies of a plot > …

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  • 13intricacy — /in tri keuh see/, n., pl. intricacies. 1. intricate character or state. 2. an intricate part, action, etc: intricacies of the law. [1595 1605; INTRIC(ATE) + ACY] * * * …

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  • 14intricacy — noun a) The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; b) Perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; …

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  • 15intricacy — Synonyms and related words: abstruseness, arduousness, bothersomeness, burdensomeness, complexity, complexness, complication, convolution, crabbedness, crampedness, deepness, difficultness, difficulty, entanglement, esoterica, hairiness, hardness …

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  • 16intricacy — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. complication, elaborateness, complexity; see confusion 2 , difficulty 1 , 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Something complex: complexity, complication. See SIMPLE …

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  • 17intricacy — in·tri·ca·cy || ɪntrɪkÉ™sɪ n. state of being complex; complexity, complication, entanglement …

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  • 18intricacy — [ ɪntrɪkəsi] noun (plural intricacies) 1》 the quality of being intricate. 2》 (intricacies) details …

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  • 19intricacy — n. Perplexity, complexity, complication, entanglement, involution, obscurity, difficulty, intricateness …

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  • 20intricacy — n intricateness, complexity, complexness, knottiness; perplexity, nonplus, puzzlement, enigma, puzzle, riddle, conundrum; labyrinth, maze, anfractu osity, tortuosity; snarl, knot, Gordian knot, tangled web, web …

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