intricacy

intricacy

English

Noun

intricacy (countable and uncountable, plural intricacies)

1. The state or quality of being intricate or entangled.

   the intricacy of a knot

   the intricacy of accounts

   the intricacy of a cause in controversy

2. Perplexity

   Synonyms: involution, complication, complexity

3. Something which is intricate or complex.

   There are many intricacies in the plot of this novel.

Translations

The state or quality of being intricate or entangled

Dutch: verwikkeling (nl) Finnish: monimutkaisuus (fi), konstikkuus (fi), mutkikkuus (fi) German: Gewundenheit f, Komplexität (de) f, Schwierigkeit (de) f, Verworrenheit f, Verzwicktheit Irish: castacht f Norwegian: vanske m, vanskelighet (no) m

Russian: запу́танность (ru) f (zapútannostʹ) Scottish Gaelic: eadar-fhigheachd f Swedish: besvärlighet (sv) c, svårighet (sv) c Turkish: anlaşmazlık (tr), giriftlik (tr), karmaşıklık (tr), karışıklık (tr)

Perplexity; involution; complication; complexity

Finnish: monimutkaisuus (fi) Irish: castacht f

Russian: сло́жность (ru) f (slóžnostʹ) Swedish: komplexitet (sv)

that which is intricate or involved

Finnish: koukero

Japanese: もつれ (ja) (motsure)

References

• intricacy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• intricacy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.