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
- 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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