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

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  1. n. The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot.
  2. n. marked by elaborately complex detail
  3. The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot. Freed from intricacies, taught to live The easiest way. Milton.
  4. The state or quality of being intricate or entangled;perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which isintricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy ofaccounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of aplot.Freed from intricacies, taught to live The easiest way. Milton.
  5. n:100 n marked by elaborately complex detail