complicacy

[kom-pli-kuh-see]

noun, plural com·pli·ca·cies for 2.

the state of being complicated; complicatedness.

a complication: the numerous complicacies of travel in such a remote country.

Origin of complicacy

1820–30; complic(ate) + -acy, modeled on such pairs as confederacy, confederate

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Historical Examples of complicacy

Among the earliest tools of any complicacy which a man, especially a man of letters, gets to handle, are his Class-books.
Sartor Resartus
Thomas Carlyle

British Dictionary definitions for complicacy

complicacy

noun plural -cies

a less common word for complexity

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