intricacy
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- noun
- /ˈɪntrɪkəsi/
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complejidad
- Some things we learn through effort, such as the intricacies of tax law.
- grammatical intricacy
- intricacy and complexity
- understand the intricacies
They're much more knowledgeable than me about like the intricacies of biology.
- They're much more knowledgeable than me about like the intricacies of biology.
- So then just picture the intricacies and how that experiment has to be set up.
- I mean, that ship, I mean, look at the intricacy of those sails.
- And like it it that's just a, a fraction of the level of intricacy that they look for.
- You will start to enjoy the intricacies of nutrient rich food that you thought you hated.
- It has created all sorts of intricacies.
- What they're what the SEC doing is trying to manipulate all the little intricacies of how you launch an initial public offering.
- Whereas with a a girl, there's more intricacies going on, right?
Examples
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I shall perform more operations myself, operations of all kinds, from the simple removal of a mole to the intricacies of open-heart surgery.
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They seem to know the intricacies of bank security systems.
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Look at the intricacies of the metal work.
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When we meet a rising lawyer, we learn about the intricacies of his practice and his private life.
Academic text (1997) -
Some attention needs to be devoted to the intricacies of our language.
Academic text (2015) -
In my studies, I focused on the intricacies of politics and culture, human interaction.
Fiction book (1993) -
In an online or chat reference interaction, librarians must master the intricacies of the traditional reference interview.
Academic text (2012) -
To explain to me the intricacies of his profession and the brain, with its countless pathologies.
Academic text (2008) -
Contradictory stories and examples move us deeper into the intricacies of the topic of inquiry.
Academic text (2000) -
The artist dedicated months to exploring the intricacy of the patterns in her latest masterpiece.
Synonyms
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Many connected parts make something hard to understand
Careful, detailed work that has many small parts or decorations
The quality of being very complex with many small parts
Having many parts or details that are hard to understand
The state of having many connected parts that are hard to understand
A complicated structure in writing or speech that is hard to follow
Antonyms
How Intricate
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Intricacy comes from the Latin verb intricare, which meant 'to entangle', so imagine threads all twisted together. So intricacy is about many small parts woven or linked tightly, and that is why it means something complex or full of detail.