intricacy

[in-tri-kuh-see]

noun

plural

intricacies 

1. intricate character or state.

2. an intricate part, action, etc.

   intricacies of the law.

Word History and Origins

Origin of intricacy¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; intric(ate) + -acy

Example Sentences

These parents would cling to laminated PDFs that detailed every intricacy of their child’s case.

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Johnson said that, looking back on it all - the intricacy of the rules of six, the complexity of other lockdown and social distancing rules, particularly for children - "I think we probably did go too far".

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A convent girl with a creepy streak, Elizabeth sees beauty in biology, leaning over a corpse’s flayed back to appreciate the intricacy of its ventricles.

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Working in concert, the two must untangle a crime of ingenious intricacy relying on their instincts, their logic, and a dogged pursuit of the facts.

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In 1979, Cooper wrote Class: A View from Middle England: a cheerful examination of the intricacies of the system that both holds the country together, and simultaneously divides it.

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• complexity