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intricacy

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in·tri·ca·cy  (ntr-k-s)
n. pl. in·tri·ca·cies
1. The condition or quality of being intricate; complexity.
2. Something intricate: the intricacies of a census form.
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Noun1.intricacy - marked by elaborately complex detail
complexity, complexness - the quality of being intricate and compounded; "he enjoyed the complexity of modern computers"

intricacy
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Spanish intricacy [ˈɪntrɪkəsɪ] ncomplejidad f
French intricacy [ˈɪntrɪkəsɪ] ncomplexité f
German intricacy [ˈɪntrɪkəsɪ] nKompliziertheit f
Italian intricacy [ˈɪntrɪkəsɪ] ncomplessità f inv

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For, with but a bit of broken sea-shell or a shark's tooth, that miraculous intricacy of wooden net-work has been achieved; and it has cost steady years of steady application.
THE erection of a new government, whatever care or wisdom may distinguish the work, cannot fail to originate questions of intricacy and nicety; and these may, in a particular manner, be expected to flow from the establishment of a constitution founded upon the total or partial incorporation of a number of distinct sovereignties.
The intricacy of these dialects is another peculiarity.
 
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