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View synonyms for complexity

complexity

[ kuhm-plek-si-tee ]

noun

, plural com·plex·i·ties
  1. the state or quality of being complex; intricacy:

    the complexity of urban life.

  2. something complex:

    the complexities of foreign policy.



complexity

/ kəmˈplɛksɪtɪ /

noun

  1. the state or quality of being intricate or complex
  2. something intricate or complex; complication


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Other Words From

  • inter·com·plexi·ty noun plural intercomplexities
  • over·com·plexi·ty noun
  • super·com·plexi·ty noun plural supercomplexities

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Word History and Origins

Origin of complexity1

First recorded in 1715–25; complex + -ity

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Example Sentences

His most elaborate camera maneuvers seemed almost diabolical in their complexity.

We had a very thin book that we had to create characters with some different complexity.

Sex, with its myths, confronts us with the complexity of our behaviors and our beliefs.

Yeah, one thing that John Shea said struck me: "Narratives close off the complexity of reality."

But Poitras and her colleagues have little interest in that sort of shades of gray complexity.

Here opens up, very evidently, a perfect labyrinth of complexity.

It is difficult, however, to trace the mode in which they operate on a substance of such complexity as the soil.

Her father was one, and he was a man who had scarcely been educated, and was certainly devoid of any complexity of character.

You can hardly imagine a being whose interior existence was more devoid of complexity and of mixed motives than was Coronado's.

Its complexity causes us to look around on all sides; apparently we have reason to fear sudden happenings.

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