Intricacy

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  • noun. The condition or quality of being intricate; complexity.
  • noun. Something intricate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; maze.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The state or quality of being intricate or entangled;
  • noun. Perplexity; involution; complication; complexity;
  • noun. 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.
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  • noun. marked by elaborately complex detail
  • Word Usage
    "Again and again another layer of intricacy is revealed, proving that something as small as a story can be as satisfying and moving as a Russian novel."