Intricacy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  intricacy
       n : marked by elaborately complex detail [syn: {elaborateness},
           {elaboration}, {involution}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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