intricacy

  1. Noun.  The state or quality of being intricate or entangled;.
  2. Noun.  Perplexity; involution; complication; complexity;.
  3. Noun.  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.

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