intricacy

English

Noun

intricacy (plural intricacies)

1. The state or quality of being intricate or entangled;
2. Perplexity; involution; complication; complexity;
3. 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.

Translations

The state or quality of being intricate or entangled

Dutch: verwikkeling (nl) German: Gewundenheit (de) f., Komplexität (de) f., Schwierigkeit (de) f., Verworrenheit (de) f., Verzwicktheit (de) Norwegian: vanske (no) m., vanskelighet (no) m.

Russian: запутанность (ru) f. Swedish: besvärlighet (sv) c., svårighet (sv) c. Turkish: anlaşmazlık (tr), giriftlik (tr), karmaşıklık (tr), karışıklık (tr)

Perplexity; involution; complication; complexity

Russian: сложность f.

that which is intricate or involved

References

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