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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TRANSPOSITION
(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
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