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[syn: elaborateness, elaboration, intricacy, involution]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Intricacy \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.
[1913 Webster]
Freed from intricacies, taught to live
The easiest way. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
intricacy
n 1: marked by elaborately complex detail [syn: elaborateness,
elaboration, intricacy, involution]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "intricacy":
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