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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.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.intricacy - marked by elaborately complex detail
elaborateness, involution, elaboration
complexity, complexness - the quality of being intricate and compounded; "he enjoyed the complexity of modern computers"
intricacy
noun complexity, involvement, complication, elaborateness, obscurity, entanglement, convolutions, involution, intricateness, knottiness
Translations
intricacy [ˈɪntrɪkəsɪ] n → complejidad f
intricacy [ˈɪntrɪkəsɪ] n → complexité f
intricacy [ˈɪntrɪkəsɪ] n → Kompliziertheit f
intricacy [ˈɪntrɪkəsɪ] n → complessità 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.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
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.
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
The intricacy of these dialects is another peculiarity.
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
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