complexity

complexity
n
1. intricacy, network, complex, complicacy; web, webwork, tangle, tangled skein, sleave; coil, twist, involution, circuity, tortuosity, sinuosity, meander, ambagiousness, flexuosity.
2. complication, problem, perplexity, puzzle, riddle, bafflement, knot, Gordian knot; wilderness, jungle, labyrinth, maze; difficulty, entanglement, involvement, imbroglio; predicament, plight, quandary, dilemma, Inf. stew; kink, gnarl, knotty point, paradox,* implication, ramification; wheels within wheels, Chinese boxes, incomprehensibility, unintelligibility, obscurity.

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