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English
Etymology
From intricate + -acy.
Pronunciation
Noun
intricacy (countable and uncountable, plural intricacies)
- The state or quality of being intricate or entangled.
- the intricacy of a knot
- the intricacy of accounts
- the intricacy of a cause in controversy
- Perplexity.
- Synonyms: involution, complication, complexity
- Something which is intricate or complex.
There are many intricacies in the plot of this novel.
Translations
The state or quality of being intricate or entangled
- Bulgarian: сложност (bg) f (složnost), заплетеност (bg) f (zapletenost)
- Dutch: verwikkeling (nl)
- Finnish: monimutkaisuus (fi), konstikkuus (fi), mutkikkuus (fi)
- German: Gewundenheit f, Komplexität (de) f, Schwierigkeit (de) f, Verworrenheit f, Verzwicktheit
- Irish: castacht f
- Norwegian: vanske m, vanskelighet (no) m
- Polish: zawiłość (pl) f
- Russian: запу́танность (ru) f (zapútannostʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: eadar-fhigheachd f
- Swedish: besvärlighet (sv) c, svårighet (sv) c
- Turkish: anlaşmazlık (tr), giriftlik (tr), karmaşıklık (tr), karışıklık (tr)
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Perplexity; involution; complication; complexity
that which is intricate or involved
References
- “intricacy”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “intricacy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.