Hypertext Webster Gateway: "intricacy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
Freed from intricacies, taught to live The easiest way.
--Milton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
intricacy
n : marked by elaborately complex detail [syn: {elaborateness},
{elaboration}, {involution}]
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