complicacyn.
/ˈkɒmplɪkəsi/ 1. The quality of being complicated or complex.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > difficulty or complexity
intrication?a1475
intricatenessa1586
intricacy1602
engagement1642
anfractuosity1645
complicateness1656
intrigue1656
implicateness1685
complexedness1690
complexness1727
complexity1790
complicacy18..
subtlety1815
complicatedness1818
complicity1847
Byzantinism1945
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [noun]
intricatenessa1586
perplexednessa1586
involution1611
mixture1614
complicateness1656
puzzledness1662
complexedness1690
complexation1707
complexness1727
complexity1790
complication1793
complicacy18..
complicatedness1818
complicity1847
involvedness1867
multiplexity1938
18.. Mitford in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1828)
1827 T. Carlyle State Germ. Lit. in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 342 With such clearness and composure does he mould the complicacy of his subject.
1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect ii. ii. 486 Wherever there is much variety or complicacy in the impressions of outward things.
2. A complicated structure, matter or condition.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > difficulty or complexity > instance of
labyrinthc1450
node1572
meander1576
meanderc1595
intricacy1611
complication1647
intrigo1648
intrigue1660
intricate1664
intricoa1670
complexity1794
sinuosity1827
complicacy1849
1849 Fraser's Mag. 40 677 A promising arrangement, one of the first to suggest itself in such a complicacy.
1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xx. iii. 47 Difficulties, complicacies very many.
1888 R. Dowling Miracle Gold I. vi. 112 The interminable complicacies of the clock.
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