complicacy

American  

[kom-pli-kuh-see] / ˈkɒm plɪ kə si /

noun

plural

complicacies

1. the state of being complicated; complicatedness.

2. a complication.

   the numerous complicacies of travel in such a remote country.

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complicacy British  

/ ˈkɒmplɪkəsɪ /

noun

1. a less common word for complexity

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Etymology

Origin of complicacy

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

Example Sentences

I'm not an in-season moves coach, mainly because of the complicacy of my defense; it takes a while to adjust to it.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 9, 2011

The venality of the conquerorʼs administration, the judicial complicacy, want of public works, weak imperial government, and arrogant local rule tended to dismember the once powerful Spanish Empire.

From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John

Everything was simple at Nancepean except the parishioners; but Mark was still too young and too simple himself to apprehend their complicacy.

From The Altar Steps by MacKenzie, Compton

There is a method of compensation by which the inertia of a cell can almost entirely be overcome, but it would add greatly to the complicacy of the receiving apparatus.

From Wireless Transmission of Photographs Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged 1919 by Martin, Marcus J.

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

From Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh by Carlyle, Thomas