complexity

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.

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complexity [kəmˈplɛksɪtɪ]

n pl -ties

1. the state or quality of being intricate or complex

2. something intricate or complex; complication

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Complexity 

See Also: DIFFICULTY

1. (He was) as complex as the double helix and sometimes as simple as a Paramecium —Mike Sommer
2. As complicated and unavailing as a cut-out paper snowflake —Eudora Welty
3. As complicated as a full-bore, rollicking infidelity right in their own homes —Richard Ford
4. As complicated as the flush valve on a water closet —Anon
5. [A family’s history] convoluted as a Greek drama —Gail Godwin
6. (Character is as) detailed, as intricately woven as the intricate Oriental carpets and brocades in Freud’s office —Vincent Canby, New York Times, September 24, 1986

   The Oriental carpet and brocade comparison was particularly apt for Canby’s review of Nineteen-Nineteen, a movie about two Freud patients, with many scenes in Freud’s heavily carpeted Vienna office.

7. The detail was astonishing, like the circuits on a computer chip —James Morrow
8. (By marriage she had to assume a whole new family of blood kin) elaborate as a graph —George Garrett
9. (Their relationship seemed as) intricate as a DNA blueprint —Joseph Wambaugh
10. To say Freud was complex is like saying Tolstoy could write —Anon

Thesaurus

Noun

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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"

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complexity

noun complication, involvement, intricacy, entanglement, convolution a diplomatic problem of great complexity

Translations

complexity [kəmˈpleksɪtɪ] N → complejidad f, lo complejo

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complexity [kəmˈplɛksɪti]

n (= difficult nature) [problem] → complexité f

complexities npl (= problems) [life] → complications f
legal complexities → complexités fpl juridiques

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complexity

n → Komplexität f; (of person, mind, issue, question, problem, poem also) → Vielschichtigkeit f; (of theory, task, system also, machine, pattern) → Differenziertheit f, → Kompliziertheit f

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complexity [kəmˈplɛksɪtɪ] n → complessità f inv

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complexity complex