complicacy

[ kom-pli-kuh-see ]

noun

, plural com·pli·ca·cies

1. the state of being complicated; complicatedness.
2. a complication:

   the numerous complicacies of travel in such a remote country.

complicacy

/ ˈkɒmplɪkəsɪ /

noun

1. See complexity
   a less common word for complexity

Word History and Origins

Origin of complicacy¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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