Meaning of INTRICACY
| Pronunciation: | | 'intrukusee
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| | Definition: | | [n] marked by elaborately complex detail |
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| | Synonyms: | | elaborateness, elaboration, involution |
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| | See Also: | | complexity, complexness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In"tri*ca*cy\, n.; pl. {Intricacies}. [From
{Intricate}.]
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.
Freed from intricacies, taught to live The easiest way.
--Milton.
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| | Related Terms: | | abstruseness, arduousness, bothersomeness, burdensomeness, complexity, complexness, complication, convolution, crabbedness, crampedness, deepness, difficultness, difficulty, entanglement, esoterica, hairiness, hardness, intricateness, involution, involvement, knottiness, laboriousness, onerousness, oppressiveness, perplexity, profoundness, profundity, ramification, reconditeness, rigor, rigorousness, ruggedness, strenuousness, subtlety, tanglement, technicality, toilsomeness, toughness, troublesomeness |
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