complexity
/kəmˈplɛksəti
/noun (plural complexities) [mass noun]
1The state or quality of being intricate or complicated: an issue of great complexity...
- Yet, each track shows new layers of complexity and intricacy and opens up new grounds.
- If the intention is to involve the player in the intricacies and complexity of politics, it works.
- The scale and complexity of the investigation is enormous and presents significant challenges.
Synonyms
complication, problem, difficulty, twist, turn, convolution, entanglement;
intricacy, complicatedness, involvement, convolutedness
1.1 [count noun] (usually complexities) A factor involved in a complicated process or situation: the complexities of family life...
- Life isn't that simple of course, and it's the complexities of the situation that Hewitt is trying to address.
- But such a simplistic analysis surely bears no relation to the complexities of the situation.
- This results in part from our limited understanding of the complexities of channel processes.
