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Complexness

The state of being complex; complexity.

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Complication 76% connected

The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.

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Elaboration 76% connected

The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.

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Intricacy 76% connected

The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the…

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Involution 76% connected

The act of involving or infolding.

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Knottiness 76% connected

The quality or state of being knotty or full of knots.

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Tapestry 76% connected

A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial and the stuff emp…

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Trickiness 76% connected

The quality of being tricky.

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Quality 76% connected

The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort;…

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Complex 74% connected

Composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea.

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Complex 74% connected

Composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea.

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Complex 66% connected

Composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea.

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Complex 66% connected

Composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea.

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Simple 66% connected

Single; not complex; not infolded or entangled; uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as, a simple substance;…

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Simple 66% connected

Single; not complex; not infolded or entangled; uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as, a simple substance;…

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Synonym 1

Complexity 92% connected

The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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