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complexity

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com·plex·i·ty  (km-plks-t)
n. pl. com·plex·i·ties
1. The quality or condition of being complex.
2. Something complex: a maze of bureaucratic and legalistic complexities.
complexity
Noun
pl -ties
1. the state or quality of being intricate or complex
2. something complicated
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Noun1.complexity - the quality of being intricate and compounded; "he enjoyed the complexity of modern computers"
complexness
quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare
complicatedness, knottiness, tortuousness, complication - puzzling complexity
elaborateness, intricacy, involution, elaboration - marked by elaborately complex detail
tapestry - something that resembles a tapestry in its complex pictorial designs; "the tapestry of European history"
trickiness - the quality of requiring skill or caution; "these puzzles are famous for their trickiness"
simplicity, simpleness - the quality of being simple or uncompounded; "the simplicity of a crystal"
complexity
noun complication, involvement, intricacy, entanglement, convolution
Translations
Spanish complexity [kəmˈplɛksɪtɪ] n → complejidad f
French complexity [kəmˈplɛksɪtɪ] n → complexité f
German complexity [kəmˈplɛksɪtɪ] complex n → Kompliziertheit f
Italian complexity [kəmˈplɛksɪtɪ] n → complessità f inv
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Besides the obscurity arising from the complexity of objects, and the imperfection of the human faculties, the medium through which the conceptions of men are conveyed to each other adds a fresh embarrassment.
Federalist Papers Authored by James Madison by Madison, James View in context
He was a famous poet in his day, and the world recognised his genius with a unanimity which the greater complexity of modern life has rendered infrequent.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
And without considering the multiplicity and complexity of the conditions any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, he snatches at the first approximation to a cause that seems to him intelligible and says: "This is the cause
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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