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English Dictionary: intricacy by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
intricacy
n
  1. marked by elaborately complex detail [syn: elaborateness, elaboration, intricacy, involution]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Intricacy \In"tri*ca*cy\, n.; pl. {Intricacies}. [From
      {Intricate}.]
      The state or quality of being intricate or entangled;
      perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which
      is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the
      intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in
      controversy; the intricacy of a plot.
  
               Freed from intricacies, taught to live The easiest way.
                                                                              --Milton.
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