Intricacy

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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.

Noun

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intricacy - marked by elaborately complex detail Synonyms: elaborateness, involution, elaboration

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