complicacy

[ kom-pli-kuh-see ]

/ ˈkɒm plɪ kə si /

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.

Nearby words

compliable, compliance, compliance officer, compliancy, compliant, complicacy, complicate, complicated, complication, complice, complicit

Origin of complicacy

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

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Examples from the Web for 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

/ (ˈkɒmplɪkəsɪ) /

noun plural -cies

a less common word for complexity

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