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[ US /ˈɪntɹəkəsi/ ]
[ US /ˈɪntɹəkəsi/ ]
NOUN
- marked by elaborately complex detail
How To Use intricacy In A Sentence
- The price depends on the intricacy of the work.
- Reacting to the report of her husband Herod's death, Mariam acknowledges the intricacy of her emotional response and chastises herself for her earlier censure of Julius Caesar, who famously wept at the news of Pompey's demise.
- The intricacy, the precision, the creativity, the hand-skills required, are what I love.
- The great span of difference in organizational intricacy means that the number of traits in the nervous system and its discriminations and alternative outputs is peculiarly great.
- We like the intricacy and the vastness of the world in which we live. The Kempton-Wace Letters
- In software engineering, the degree of complication of a system or system component, determined by such factors as the number and intricacy of interfaces, the number and intricacy of conditional branches, the degree of nesting, the types of data structures, and other system characteristics.
- But besides the complicated character of the general subject, as it presents itself to the minds of children -- that is, the intricacy to them of the question when there must be a strict correspondence between the words spoken and an actual reality, and when they may rightly represent mere images or fancies of the mind -- there is another great difficulty in their way, one that is very little considered and often, indeed, not at all understood by parents -- and that is, that in the earliest years the distinction between realities and mere fancies of the mind is very indistinctly drawn. Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Met
- I am, however, far from intending to insinuate, that feelings of this nature will prevail on your Lordship to consider real blemishes merely as the effects of an inadvertency, which is excusable in proportion to the intricacy of a subject. An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients
- The intricacy of the music and the audacity of the joint improvisations take the explorations close to the edge, with changes of tempo and harmonies miraculously reaching resolution.
- Curtis captures the angst of first love, the rhapsody of a first kiss and the intricacy of families.