complexity

Roget category 59a

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.4. Order
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#59a. Complexity

noun

complexity — complexness etc. adj. — complexus^† — complication, implication — intricacy, intrication^† — perplexity — network, labyrinth — wilderness, jungle — involution, raveling, entanglement — coil etc. (convolution) 248 — sleave^†, tangled skein, knot, Gordian knot, wheels within wheels — kink, gnarl, knarl^† — webwork^†.
[complexity if a task or action] difficulty etc. 704.

verb

complexify^†, complicate.

adjective

gnarled, knarled^†.
complex, complexed — intricate, complicated, perplexed, involved, raveled, entangled, knotted, tangled, inextricable — irreducible.

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