complexity
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- noun
- /kəmˈplɛksɪti/
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complejidad
- The complexity of the new software made it difficult for users to navigate.
- level of complexity
- increase complexity
- add complexity
So simply back off, reduce the complexity, right?
- So simply back off, reduce the complexity, right?
- Cigars, there's so much more complexity to the taste.
- All of these complexities mean that you need support.
- So what do you make of the emergence of complexity from simple rules?
- So that's why the tool is showing us more complexity all the way down.
- And, you know, how does it add to the complexity of the issue?
- I won't go into the complexities of this.
- What I'm against is the complexity of paying.
- So you said there's some order and yet there's complexity.
- Your book is kind of bridging some of this complexity.
- I completely agree to add one more layer of complexity.
- There's a real failure to grapple with like complexity.
- Those people have what we call a very high need for cognitive complexity.
Examples
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Our increasingly diverse society creates levels of complexity in our daily work as music educators.
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And, you know, how does it add to the complexity of the issue?
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So simply back off, reduce the complexity, right?
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One question there whether complexity science helps us with that question.
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So I think that complexity is not helpful.
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OK now let me add a little complexity to this scenario.
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History seeks to understand contexts and complexity of cause and effect.
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And I, I certainly understand the complexities of this issue.
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It's the elegance and the complexity of the structure.
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The facts in the NPSA report bear witness to the complexities and challenges of insulin treatment.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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2.4
A hard part of a task that needs extra effort or is not easy to understand
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A set of small, detailed parts that make something complex
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Difficulty understanding something because it is complex or unclear
Having many parts or details that are hard to understand
The quality of being very complex with many small parts
The state of having many connected parts that are hard to understand
A quality that makes something hard to understand or solve
A complicated structure in writing or speech that is hard to follow
Careful, detailed work that has many small parts or decorations
A quality of having many twists that makes paths or ideas hard to follow
The quality of being very difficult to understand because it is complex
Difficulty understanding something because it is very complex
Very hard to understand because the ideas are unclear or complicated
How difficult something is to do or understand
Antonyms
How Complex
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word complexity comes from the Latin parts com- 'together' and plex 'to weave'. So something with complexity is like many threads woven together, which makes it hard to understand.