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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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

a less common word for complexity

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