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complexifier

complexifier noun: someone or something that introduces complexity (into an issue or situation).

Noun

complexifier (plural complexifiers)

  1. Someone or something that introduces complexity (into an issue or situation)
    • Whereas the complexifiers emphasize tolerance of ambiguity, contradiction, and change as critical ingredients for good judgment, the fundamentalists take a starkly different approach.1992 September, Philip E. Tetlock, “Good Judgment in International Politics: Three Psychological Perspectives”, in Political Psychology, volume 13, number 3, page 527
    • The complexifiers seek to acknowledge and express the contradiction and to articulate reasons for resolving it one way or the other without reference to a single overarching theory or formula.2000, Joseph William Singer, Entitlement: The Paradoxes of Property, Yale University Press, page 213

Examples of complexifier in a sentence

  • Again and again, the porcupine has been a teacher, a storyteller of the woods, a complexifier and adorner of the world.2009, Uldis Roze, The North American Porcupine, Cornell University Press, page 14:
  • The Complexifier is well-meaning but annoying.2012, Michael Dalton Johnson, Rules of the Hunt, McGraw Hill, page 24:

Forms of complexifier

pluralcomplexifiers

Origin of complexifier

From complexify + -er.

Questions about complexifier

What does complexifier mean?
Complexifier means someone or something that introduces complexity (into an issue or situation).
How do you use complexifier in a sentence?
Again and again, the porcupine has been a teacher, a storyteller of the woods, a complexifier and adorner of the world.
What part of speech is complexifier?
Complexifier is a noun.
What is the plural of complexifier?
The plural of complexifier is complexifiers.

Words near complexifier in the dictionary

  1. complexest
  2. complexibility
  3. complexification
  4. complexifications
  5. complexified
  6. complexifier
  7. complexifiers
  8. complexifies
  9. complexify
  10. complexifying
  11. complexin

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