complexity

The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.

Noun

  1. The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.
  2. That which is and renders complex; intricacy; complication.
    • The battle was like the grinding of an immense and terrible machine to him. Its complexities and powers, its grim processes, fascinated him. - 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter VIII, in The Red Badge of Courage: An...

Origin

From complex + -ity. Partially displaced native English manifoldness.

Forms

complexities

Synonyms

complicacy complexity complexness complicate complicatedness complication complicity intricacy involution sophistication

Antonyms

simplicity incomplexity uncomplexity

Hypernyms

detailedness difficulty

Hyponyms

hypercomplexity overcomplexity confusingness depth entanglement perplexity

Related

complexus complicate complexification complex

Derived

attributional complexity biocomplexity chaoplexity complexity class complexity function complexity-hiding proxy complexity theory computational complexity theory cyclomatic complexity geocomplexity hypercomplexity incomplexity irreducible complexity Kolmogorov complexity McCabe's complexity overcomplexity Rademacher complexity space complexity time complexity time-space complexity ultracomplexity uncomplexity