complexity
English
Etymology
complex + -ity Partially displaced native English manifoldness.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kəmˈplɛk.sɪ.ti/
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complexity (countable and uncountable, plural complexities)
- (uncountable) The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.
- (countable) That which is and renders complex; intricacy; complication.
- 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter VIII, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, pages 84–85:
- The battle was like the grinding of an immense and terrible machine to him. Its complexities and powers, its grim processes, fascinated him.
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the state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement
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that which is complex; intricacy; complication
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