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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9 June 2025

HERMAPHRODITE

(noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made


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Coffee Trivia

The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.

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