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

• attributional complexity
• complexity class
• complexity theory
• complexity-hiding proxy
• cyclomatic complexity
• irreducible complexity
• Kolmogorov complexity
• Rademacher complexity
• space complexity
• time complexity

 

Related terms

• complexus
• complicate

Translations

the state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement

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

  Mandarin: 複雜性／复杂性 (zh) (fùzáxìng)

• Czech: složitost f
• Dutch: ingewikkeldheid f, complexiteit f
• Estonian: keerulisus
• Finnish: monimutkaisuus, mutkikkuus
• French: complexité f
• Galician: complexidade f
• Georgian: სირთულე (sirtule), ჩახლართულობა (čaxlartuloba), კომპლექსურობა (ḳomṗleksuroba)
• German: Kompliziertheit f, Komplexität f
• Greek: περιπλοκότητα f
• Hebrew: מורכבות‎ f (murkavut)
• Hungarian: bonyolultság, komplikáltság
• Irish: castacht f
• Italian: complessità f
• Japanese: 複雑さ (ふくざつさ, fukuzatsusa)
• Latvian: sarežģītība f
• Lithuanian: sudėtingumas m
• Malayalam: സങ്കീർണ്ണത (saṅkīṟṇṇata)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kompleksitet m

  Nynorsk: kompleksitet m

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

that which is complex; intricacy; complication

• Armenian: բարդություն (bardutʿyun)
• Catalan: complexitat f
• Danish: indviklethed c, kompleksitet c
• Dutch: gecompliceerdheid f, verwikkeling f, complexiteit f
• Estonian: keerukus
• Finnish: monimutkaisuus, vaikeus, ongelma, hankaluus
• French: complexité f
• Galician: complexidade f
• Georgian: სირთულე (sirtule), ჩახლართულობა (čaxlartuloba)
• German: Komplexität f, Schwierigkeit f, Komplikation f
• Greek: περιπλοκή f
• Hungarian: bonyodalom, komplikáció
• Italian: complessità f
• Latvian: komplicētība f
• Lithuanian: painumas m
• Malayalam: സങ്കീർണ്ണം (saṅkīṟṇṇaṃ)
• Norwegian: floke m or f, forvikling m
• Old English: maniġfealdnes f
• Polish: zawiłość f
• Portuguese: complexidade f
• Romanian: complexitate f
• Russian: сло́жность f (slóžnostʹ)
• Slovak: zložitosť f
• Slovene: zapletenost f
• Spanish: complejidad f
• Swedish: komplikation c, krånglighet c
• Turkish: karmaşık