Synonyms for complexity


Grammar : Noun
Spell : kuh m-plek-si-tee
Phonetic Transcription : kəmˈplɛk sɪ ti


Définition of complexity

Origin :
  • 1721, "composite nature," from complex (adj.) + -ity. Meaning "intricacy" is from 1790. Meaning "a complex condition" is from 1794.
  • noun complicatedness
Example sentences :
  • The complexity of life is shown by the extension of the necessity of choice.
  • Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan
  • To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity—it is to destroy it.
  • Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
  • But our State in which one man plays one part only is not adapted for complexity.
  • Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
  • Lydia said, in a low tone charged with her own complexity of sentiment.
  • Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
  • This is too often lost sight of in the complexity of things.
  • Extract from : « Rural Life and the Rural School » by Joseph Kennedy
  • When we came into the choir and apse we found ourselves in the midst of complexity.
  • Extract from : « Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land » by Henry Van Dyke
  • The complexity of modern times has for centuries demanded the opposite system.
  • Extract from : « Psychotherapy » by Hugo Mnsterberg
  • The Major declined to argue the question—one of some complexity perhaps.
  • Extract from : « Tristram of Blent » by Anthony Hope
  • Grant's simplicity was more disconcerting than the complexity of a Talleyrand.
  • Extract from : « The Education of Henry Adams » by Henry Adams
  • Yet with all its complexity it belongs to quite a different order of work from Eyrbyggja.
  • Extract from : « Epic and Romance » by W. P. Ker

Antonyms for complexity

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