Perplex vs Intricacy - What's the difference?
perplex | intricacy |
To cause to feel baffled; to .
To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.
* John Locke
(obsolete) To plague; to vex; to torment.
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.
As a verb perplex
is to cause to feel baffled; to.As an adjective perplex
is (obsolete) intricate; difficult.As a noun intricacy is
the state or quality of being intricate or entangled;.perplex
English
Verb
(es)- What was thought obscure, perplexed , and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view.
- (Glanvill)