inextricabilityn.
rare.
The quality or state of being inextricable. Also with an and plural. An instance of this, a situation, etc. from which one cannot extricate oneself.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > [noun] > condition of being unable to be untangled
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1834 H. O'Brien Round Towers Ireland 444 Taking them, as his clue, into a labyrinth of inextricability.
1847 T. Medwin Life Shelley I. 187 Spain has emancipated herself from the inextricability of the chain.
1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xx. x. 257 He..fell partly..into drinking, as the solution of his inextricabilities.
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