complicateness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

complicate (adjective) +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

complicateness (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Complicatedness, complexity.
    • 1677, Matthew Hale, chapter 1, in The primitive origination of mankind, considered and examined according to the light of nature:
      There is so great variety of Intelligibles in the World, so much objected to our Senses [] and every several Object so full of subdivided multiplicity and complicateness.
    • 1838, William Maclure, Opinions on Various Subjects, Dedicated to the Industrious Producers, volume 3, page 8:
      The remaining nine old states, originally colonized under the special protection of the British government, are burdened with all the inconveniences, litigation, complicateness, and expense of the feudal territorial division into counties and parishes.