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Definition of Intricacy
1. Noun. Marked by elaborately complex detail.
Generic synonyms: Complexity, Complexness
Derivative terms: Elaborate, Elaborate
Definition of Intricacy
1. n. 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.
Definition of Intricacy
1. Noun. The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; ¹
2. Noun. Perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; ¹
3. 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Intricacy
1. [n -CIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intricacy
Literary usage of Intricacy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays on the Picturesque, as Compared with the Sublime and the Beautiful by Uvedale Price (1810)
"When suspense and uncertainty are produced, by the abrupt intricacy of object?
divested of grandeur, they are merely amus-r ing to the mind, ..."
2. The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told by John Arthur Thomson (1922)
"intricacy of Architecture in Small Animals Long before there was any microscope
the use of the scalpel, helped sometimes by the simple lens, had revealed ..."
3. A Treatise on Forming, Improving, and Managing Country Residences: And on by John Claudius Loudon (1806)
"intricacy is different from variety, as it always requires the presence of two
qualities, form and colour, light and darkness, or form and disposition. ..."
4. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1826)
"Some affairs are involved in such a degree of intricacy, as to exhaust the patience
and perseverance of the most laborious. ..."
5. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1837)
"This intricacy Appears useless, and consequently absurd ; but the original
principle of a Venetian election (for something of the same kind was applied to ..."
6. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"Middle-Rhine Army in a staggering State; intricacy settles itself, the wrong
Way.y '• Early in March it becomes ..."
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