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COMPLEXNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being intricate and compounded
Example:
he enjoyed the complexity of modern computers
Synonyms:
complexity; complexness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("complexness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Attribute:
simple (having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved)
complex (complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "complexness"):
complicatedness; complication; knottiness; tortuousness (puzzling complexity)
elaborateness; elaboration; intricacy; involution (marked by elaborately complex detail)
tapestry (something that resembles a tapestry in its intricacy)
trickiness (the quality of requiring skill or caution)
Derivation:
complex (complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts)
