complicatedness
- noun
- /ˌkɒmplɪˈkeɪtɪdnəs/
- Her explanation added to the complicatedness of the issue rather than clarifying it.
Examples
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The complicatedness of the software's interface frustrated many users.
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Everyone knows that complicatedness = unintelligibility, especially when money is the protagonist.
Blog text (31) -
Yet the chapter's complicatedness, at first read, gives a good idea of the rising clamor of a revolution underway.
Academic text (2002) -
The complicatedness of the puzzle made it difficult for the children to solve.
Synonyms
Many connected parts make something hard to understand
A set of small, detailed parts that make something complex
Difficulty understanding something because it is complex or unclear
A very clever and difficult puzzle or plan that confuses people
Having many parts or details that are hard to understand
The quality of being very complex with many small parts
A quality that makes something hard to understand or solve
The quality of being very difficult to understand because it is complex
A complicated structure in writing or speech that is hard to follow
A quality of having many twists that makes paths or ideas hard to follow
Careful, detailed work that has many small parts or decorations
Antonyms
How Complicated
Surface Forms
Morphology
complicatedness = complicated (transparent) = complicate + ed + ness
Formation is a straightforward nominalization of the adjective 'complicated' using the productive suffix '-ness' to indicate a quality or state.
Etymology
Complicatedness comes from the Latin parts com- 'together' and plicare 'to fold', and the same 'fold' idea appears in the word duplicate. So complicatedness describes something 'folded together', made of many joined parts and therefore often hard to understand.