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Intricacy vs Complicacy - What's the difference?

intricacy | complicacy |

As nouns the difference between intricacy and complicacy

is that intricacy is the state or quality of being intricate or entangled; while complicacy is the state of being complex; 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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    complicacy

    English

    Noun

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

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