the intricacy of a knot
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Intricacy
//ˈɪn.tɹɪ.kə.si//
Synonyms for "intricacy" (51 found)
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45 translations across 14 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- заплетеност noun (The state or quality of being intricate or entangled)
- обърканост noun (Perplexity; involution; complication; complexity)
- сложност noun (The state or quality of being intricate or entangled)
Dutch
1 entries- verwikkeling noun (The state or quality of being intricate or entangled)
Finnish
4 entries- konstikkuus noun (The state or quality of being intricate or entangled)
- koukero noun (that which is intricate or involved)
- monimutkaisuus noun (The state or quality of being intricate or entangled)
- monimutkaisuus noun (Perplexity; involution; complication; complexity)
German
4 entries- Gewundenheit noun (The state or quality of being intricate or entangled)
- Komplexität noun (The state or quality of being intricate or entangled)
- Schwierigkeit noun (The state or quality of being intricate or entangled)
- Verworrenheit noun (The state or quality of being intricate or entangled)
Irish
2 entries- castacht noun (The state or quality of being intricate or entangled)
- castacht noun (Perplexity; involution; complication; complexity)
Japanese
1 entries- もつれ noun (that which is intricate or involved)
Marathi
1 entries- गुंतागुंत noun (Perplexity; involution; complication; complexity)
Norwegian
2 entries- vanske noun (The state or quality of being intricate or entangled)
- vanskelighet noun (The state or quality of being intricate or entangled)
Polish
4 entries- misterność noun (Perplexity; involution; complication; complexity)
- skomplikowanie noun (The state or quality of being intricate or entangled)
- zawiłość noun (The state or quality of being intricate or entangled)
- zawiłość noun (that which is intricate or involved)
Russian
2 entries- запу́танность noun (The state or quality of being intricate or entangled)
- сло́жность noun (Perplexity; involution; complication; complexity)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- eadar-fhigheachd noun (The state or quality of being intricate or entangled)
Spanish
4 entries- busilis noun (that which is intricate or involved)
- complicaciones noun (that which is intricate or involved)
- dificultades noun (that which is intricate or involved)
- entresijos noun (that which is intricate or involved)
Swedish
3 entries- besvärlighet noun (The state or quality of being intricate or entangled)
- komplexitet noun (Perplexity; involution; complication; complexity)
- svårighet noun (The state or quality of being intricate or entangled)
Turkish
4 entries- anlaşmazlık noun (The state or quality of being intricate or entangled)
- giriftlik noun (The state or quality of being intricate or entangled)
- karmaşıklık noun (The state or quality of being intricate or entangled)
- karışıklık noun (The state or quality of being intricate or entangled)
Sample sentences
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the intricacy of accounts
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the intricacy of a cause in controversy
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The breadth of Creation makes it impossible for us to step back far enough to see the story that the tapestry tells; the intricacy of it, from the macro to the micro to the subatomic, makes it impossible for us to comprehend the megatrillions of connections between the threads in just one small fragment of the whole.
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