complexity

English

Etymology

complex +‎ -ity Partially displaced native English manifoldness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəmˈplɛk.sɪ.ti/

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Noun

complexity (countable and uncountable, plural complexities)

1. (uncountable) The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.
2. (countable) That which is and renders complex; intricacy; complication.
   • 1895 October 1, Stephen Crane, chapter 8, in The Red Badge of Courage, 1st US edition, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 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.

Synonyms

• complicacy

Antonyms

• simplicity

Derived terms

Derived terms

• complexity theory
• irreducible complexity
• Kolmogorov complexity

• space complexity
• time complexity

Related terms

• complexus
• complicate

Translations

the state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement

• Arabic: تَعْقِيد‎ m (taʿqīd)
• Armenian: բարդություն (hy) (bardutʿyun)
• Bulgarian: сложност (bg) f (složnost), обърканост (bg) f (obǎrkanost)
• Catalan: complexitat f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 複雜性 (zh), 复杂性 (zh) (fùzáxìng)

• Czech: složitost (cs) f
• Dutch: ingewikkeldheid (nl) f, complexiteit (nl) f
• Estonian: keerulisus
• Finnish: monimutkaisuus (fi), mutkikkuus (fi)
• French: complexité (fr) f
• Galician: complexidade (gl) f
• Georgian: სირთულე (sirtule), ჩახლართულობა (čaxlartuloba), კომპლექსურობა (ḳomṗleksuroba)
• German: Kompliziertheit f, Komplexität (de) f
• Greek: περιπλοκότητα f (periplokótēta)
• Hebrew: מורכבות‎ f (murkavut)
• Hungarian: bonyolultság (hu), komplikáltság (hu)

• Irish: castacht f
• Italian: complessità (it) f
• Japanese: 複雑さ (ふくざつさ, fukuzatsusa)
• Latvian: sarežģītība f
• Lithuanian: sudėtingumas m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kompleksitet m

  Nynorsk: kompleksitet m

• Old English: maniġfealdnes f
• Polish: złożoność (pl) f, zawiłość (pl) f
• Portuguese: complexidade (pt) f
• Romanian: complexitate (ro) f
• Russian: сло́жность (ru) f (slóžnostʹ)
• Slovak: zložitosť f
• Slovene: zapletenost f
• Spanish: complejidad (es) f
• Swedish: komplexitet (sv) c
• Turkish: karmaşıklık (tr)
• Welsh: cymhlethdod m, dryswch m, astrusi m

that which is complex; intricacy; complication

• Armenian: բարդություն (hy) (bardutʿyun)
• Catalan: complexitat f
• Danish: indviklethed c, kompleksitet c
• Dutch: gecompliceerdheid f, verwikkeling (nl) f, complexiteit (nl) f
• Estonian: keerukus
• Finnish: monimutkaisuus (fi), vaikeus (fi), ongelma (fi), hankaluus (fi)
• French: complexité (fr) f
• Galician: complexidade (gl) f
• Georgian: სირთულე (sirtule), ჩახლართულობა (čaxlartuloba)
• German: Komplexität (de) f, Schwierigkeit (de) f, Komplikation (de) f
• Greek: περιπλοκή (el) f (periplokḗ)
• Hungarian: bonyodalom (hu), komplikáció
• Italian: complessità (it) f

• Latvian: komplicētība f
• Lithuanian: painumas m
• Norwegian: floke m or f, forvikling m
• Old English: maniġfealdnes f
• Polish: zawiłość (pl) f
• Portuguese: complexidade (pt) f
• Romanian: complexitate (ro) f
• Russian: сло́жность (ru) f (slóžnostʹ)
• Slovak: zložitosť f
• Slovene: zapletenost f
• Spanish: complejidad (es) f
• Swedish: komplikation (sv) c, krånglighet (sv) c
• Turkish: karmaşık (tr)