complexity
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Etymology[edit]
complex + -ity Partially displaced native English manifoldness.
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complexity (countable and uncountable, plural complexities)
- (uncountable) The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.
- (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.
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The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement
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That which is complex; intricacy; complication
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