complexity
noun/kəmˈplɛk.sɪ.ti/
Etymology From complex + -ity. Partially displaced native English manifoldness.
1
The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.
2
That which is and renders complex; intricacy; complication.
- The battle was like the grinding of an immense and terrible machine to him. Its complexities and powers, its grim processes, fascinated him.1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter VIII, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, pages 84–85:
- Synonyms
- complicacy, complexity, complexness, complicate, complicatedness, complication, complicity, intricacy, involution, sophistication
- Antonyms
- simplicity, incomplexity, uncomplexity
- Derived terms
- attributional complexity, biocomplexity, chaoplexity, complexity class, complexity function, complexity-hiding proxy, complexity theory, computational complexity theory, cyclomatic complexity, geocomplexity, hypercomplexity, incomplexity, irreducible complexity, Kolmogorov complexity, McCabe's complexity, overcomplexity, Rademacher complexity, space complexity, time complexity, time-space complexity, ultracomplexity, uncomplexity
- Related terms
- complexus, complicate, complexification, complex
- Hypernyms
- detailedness, difficulty
- Hyponyms
- hypercomplexity, overcomplexity, confusingness, depth, entanglement, perplexity