complexity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the quality of being intricate and compounded

   They enjoyed the complexity of modern computers.

2. 2
   noun

   That which is and renders complex; intricacy; complication.

   The battle was like the grinding of an immense and terrible machine to him. Its complexities and powers, its grim processes, fascinated him.

3. 3
   noun

   The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.

Etymology

From complex + -ity. Partially displaced native English manifoldness.