complicacy

[ kom-pli-kuh-see ]

noun,plural com·pli·ca·cies for 2.
  1. the state of being complicated; complicatedness.

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

Origin of complicacy

1
1820–30; complic(ate) + -acy, modeled on such pairs as confederacy, confederate

Words Nearby complicacy

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How to use complicacy in a sentence

  • 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

/ (ˈkɒmplɪkəsɪ) /


nounplural -cies
  1. a less common word for complexity

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