Synonyms for complexity
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Noun
1. Intricacy
intricacy, complication, sophistication, entanglement, perplexity, involution
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Definitions
- n. 1
The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.
Related words
- Word family
- complicate complex
- Is a kind of
- difficulty
Forms
- Plural
- complexities → intricacies, complications, sophistications, entanglements…
Example sentences
- complication A new complication of coronavirus became apparent in the study.
- sophistication The black tie event had an air of sophistication.
- entanglement Entanglement with the world constitutes an observation.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| complexity | rising | |
| complication | steady | |
| sophistication | steady | |
| entanglement | rising | |
| intricacy | steady | |
| complexness | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 9 letters
- intricacy4
- 10 letters
- perplexity4, involution, complicacy
- 11 letters
- complexness
- 12 letters
- complication4, entanglement4
- 14 letters
- sophistication5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (intricacy4 = 4 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- complexité
- Italiano
- complessità
- Deutsch
- Komplexität