intricacy
Plural: intricacies
Noun
- marked by elaborately complex detail
- The state or quality of being intricate or entangled.
- Perplexity.
- Something which is intricate or complex.
Examples
- the intricacy of a cause in controversy
- the intricacy of a knot
- the intricacy of accounts
- There are many intricacies in the plot of this novel.
Origin / Etymology
From intricate + -acy.
Synonyms
elaborateness, elaboration, involution, complexity, complication
Scrabble Score: 16
intricacy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordintricacy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
intricacy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 18
intricacy: valid Words With Friends Word