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intricacies

intricacies is the plural of intricacy.

Meaning of intricacy

Noun

intricacy (countable and uncountable, plural intricacies)

  1. The state or quality of being intricate or entangled.
    • the intricacy of a knot
  2. Perplexity.
    • The breadth of Creation makes it impossible for us to step back far enough to see the story that the tapestry tells; the intricacy of it, from the macro to the micro to the subatomic, makes it impossible for us to comprehend the megatrillions of connections between the threads in just one small...2013, Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd, London: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 121
  3. Something which is intricate or complex.
    • There are many intricacies in the plot of this novel.

Questions about intricacies

What is intricacies the plural of?
Intricacies is the plural of intricacy.

Words near intricacies in the dictionary

  1. intrepitude
  2. intrested
  3. Intriago
  4. Intriagos
  5. intricable
  6. intricacies
  7. intricacy
  8. intricate
  9. intricated
  10. intricately
  11. intricateness

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