complexities
- 1Plural of complexity.
The treaty's negotiators wrestled with the legal complexities of cross-border trade.
Modern supply chains involve logistical complexities that span several continents.
Note
Only one side of complexity can take a plural: the countable sense, a particular thing that makes something complicated. The abstract state of being complex, as in the complexity of the problem, has no plural. So the complexities of a treaty are its separate tangles, not a greater degree of difficulty. It sits naturally in the phrase the complexities of: of trade, of the law, of a supply chain.
complexities is a form of complexity
complexity, noun: The state of being made up of many interconnected parts, which makes something hard to understand or deal with. Full entry
- Forms
- complexitycomplexities plural
- Spelling
- complexity → complexities: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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