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Synonyms for complexes

Grammar : Noun
Spell : adjective, verb kuhm-pleks, kom-pleks; noun kom-pleks
Phonetic Transcription : adjective, verb kəmˈplɛks, ˈkɒm plɛks; noun ˈkɒm plɛks

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Définition of complexes

Origin :
  • 1650s, "composed of parts," from French complexe "complicated, complex, intricate" (17c.), from Latin complexus "surrounding, encompassing," past participle of complecti "to encircle, embrace," in transferred use, "to hold fast, master, comprehend," from com- "with" (see com-) + plectere "to weave, braid, twine, entwine," from PIE *plek-to-, from root *plek- "to plait" (see ply (v.1)). The meaning "not easily analyzed" is first recorded 1715. Complex sentence is attested from 1881.
  • noun composite, aggregate
  • noun psychological problem
Example sentences :
  • We may not be unhappy, neurotic, mad; our complexes must be inspected.
  • Extract from : « Nonsenseorship » by G. G. Putnam and Others
  • Now what I mean about Old Crow is, that his complexes are like yours—or rather yours are like his.
  • Extract from : « Old Crow » by Alice Brown
  • All past experiences are conserved within us in the form of complexes.
  • Extract from : « Initiative Psychic Energy » by Warren Hilton
  • Every memory you have is an illustration of such "complexes."
  • Extract from : « The Trained Memory » by Warren Hilton
  • There are, then, conscious complexes and subconscious complexes, complexes of consciousness and complexes of subconsciousness.
  • Extract from : « The Trained Memory » by Warren Hilton
  • The Subconscious Storehouse And of the complexes of subconsciousness, some are far more readily recalled than others.
  • Extract from : « The Trained Memory » by Warren Hilton
  • The species Dipodomys ordii is divisible into six complexes, or groups, of subspecies on both geographic and morphological bases.
  • Extract from : « Speciation in the Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys ordii » by Henry W. Setzer
  • When a mood or system of complexes drives out all other moods, one becomes "a different person."
  • Extract from : « Outwitting Our Nerves » by Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury
  • War is a profound and rapid maker of mental attitudes and of complexes that are quick to develop and slow to pass away.
  • Extract from : « Crime: Its Cause and Treatment » by Clarence Darrow
  • No one doubts that there is energy in the living thing, nor that there are what the author calls "complexes of energies."
  • Extract from : « Science and Morals and Other Essays » by Bertram Coghill Alan Windle

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