complexity
Pluralcomplexities (some meanings)
- 1The state of being made up of many interconnected parts, which makes something hard to understand or deal with.
Like a city's tangle of streets, pipes, and wires layered on top of one another.
The complexity of the legal system can overwhelm people who have no lawyer.
Scientists study the complexity of the human brain, with its billions of connections.
Similarintricacy, complication, convolution, difficulty
Oppositesimplicity, straightforwardness, clarity
- 2A feature or factor that adds difficulty or makes something more complicated.
Like a detour that adds another turn to an already winding route.
Each added complexity in the design raised the cost of the project.
The negotiation involved many complexities that slowed the final agreement.
Similarcomplication, intricacy, difficulty, nuance
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Origin
Formed from "complex" plus the suffix "-ity". It partially displaced the native English word "manifoldness".