complexifier

Someone or something that introduces complexity (into an issue or situation)

Noun

  1. Someone or something that introduces complexity (into an issue or situation)
    • Whereas the complexifiers emphasize tolerance of ambiguity, contradiction, and change as critical ingredients for good judgment, the fundamentalists take a starkly different approach. - 1992 September, Philip E....
    • The complexifiers seek to acknowledge and express the contradiction and to articulate reasons for resolving it one way or the other without reference to a single overarching theory or formula. - 2000, Joseph William...
    • Again and again, the porcupine has been a teacher, a storyteller of the woods, a complexifier and adorner of the world. - 2009, Uldis Roze, The North American Porcupine, Cornell University Press, page 14:

Origin

From complexify + -er.

Forms

complexifiers