Complexity

//kəmˈplɛk.sɪ.ti// noun

noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement. uncountable
  2. 2
    the quality of being intricate and compounded wordnet
  3. 3
    That which is and renders complex; intricacy; complication. countable

    "The battle was like the grinding of an immense and terrible machine to him. Its complexities and powers, its grim processes, fascinated him."

Synonyms

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complexnessabstrusenessarduousnessbothersomenessburdensomenesscomplicacy

Example

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"It cannot plausibly be argued that behaviour of such complexity derives entirely from instinct."

Etymology

From complex + -ity. Partially displaced native English manifoldness.

Related phrases

Kolmogorov complexityMcCabe's complexityRademacher complexityattributional complexitycomplexity classcomplexity functioncomplexity theorycomplexity-hiding proxycomputational complexity theorycyclomatic complexityirreducible complexityspace complexity

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