Intricacy
['ɪntrɪkəsɪ] or ['ɪntrɪkəsi]
Definition
(n.) The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot.
Typed by Elinor
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Perplexity, complexity, complication, entanglement, involution, obscurity, difficulty, intricateness.
Editor: Priscilla
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Complexity, complication, entanglement, perplexity, confusion
ANT:Directness, obviousness, method, disposition, array, system
Edited by Jacqueline
Examples
- In the face of a clotted intricacy in the subject-matter of politics, improvements in knowledge seem meager indeed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Not infrequently he is actively engaged in the manipulation of some compound of special intricacy, whose results might be illuminative of obscure facts not patent to others than himself. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But you called him in to attend on Fred, and I am sure that was a mercy, said Mrs. Bulstrode, losing her clew in the intricacies of the subject. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He became thoroughly familiar with the intricacies of fire-box, boiler, valves, levers, and gears, and liked nothing better than to handle the locomotive himself during the run. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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