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Intricacy vs Complexity - What's the difference?

intricacy | complexity |

As nouns the difference between intricacy and complexity

is that intricacy is the state or quality of being intricate or entangled while complexity is the state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.

intricacy

English

Noun

(intricacies)
  • 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.

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    complexity

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.
  • (countable) That which is and renders complex; intricacy; complication.

    • Synonyms

    * complicacy

    Antonyms

    * simplicity

    Derived terms

    * complexity theory * space complexity * time complexity * Kolmogorov complexity

    Related terms

    * complexus * complicate