complicacy

[ kom-pli-kuh-see ]

noun

, plural com·pli·ca·cies

1. the state of being complicated; complicatedness.
2. a complication:

   the numerous complicacies of travel in such a remote country.

complicacy

/ ˈkɒmplɪkəsɪ /

noun

1. a less common word for complexity

Word History and Origins

Origin of complicacy¹

1820–30; complic(ate) + -acy, modeled on such pairs as confederacy, confederate

Example Sentences

I'm not an in-season moves coach, mainly because of the complicacy of my defense; it takes a while to adjust to it.

From Seattle Times

There is a method of compensation by which the inertia of a cell can almost entirely be overcome, but it would add greatly to the complicacy of the receiving apparatus.

From Project Gutenberg

Of one sore I an hundred make by adding but one more L. In a former publication I have shown that an antagonism had developed between Shakespeare and Chapman as early as the year 1594, and in a more recent one have shown Matthew Roydon's complicacy with Chapman in his hostility to Shakespeare, and also Shakespeare's cognizance of it.

From Project Gutenberg

Moreover, I need hardly point out that the native population of the capital of the Philippines by no means represents the true native character, to comprehend which, so far as its complicacy can be fathomed, one must penetrate into and reside for years in the interior of the Colony, as I have done, in places where extraneous influences have, as yet, produced no effect.

From Project Gutenberg

The venality of the conquerorʼs administration, the judicial complicacy, want of public works, weak imperial government, and arrogant local rule tended to dismember the once powerful Spanish Empire.

From Project Gutenberg