INTRICACY

elaborateness, elaboration, intricacy, involution

(noun) marked by elaborately complex detail

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

intricacy (countable and uncountable, plural intricacies)

The state or quality of being intricate or entangled.

Perplexity

Synonyms: involution, complication, complexity

Something which is intricate or complex.

Source: Wiktionary


In"tri*ca*cy, n.; pl. Intricacies. Etym: [From Intricate.]

Definition: 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. Freed from intricacies, taught to live The easiest way. Milton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

29 June 2024

INITIALISM

(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”


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Coffee Trivia

International Coffee Day (September 29) is an occasion to promote and celebrate coffee as a beverage, with events occurring in places across the world. A day to promote fair trade coffee and raise awareness for the coffee growers’ plight. Other countries celebrate this event on October 1.

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