Complexity

English

Noun

Complexity (countable and uncountable; plural complexities)

1. (uncountable) The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.
2. (countable) That which is and renders complex; intricacy; complication.

Adjectives for Complexity

astonishing; endless; infinite; ever-growing; abstract; ornate; serried; political; extraordinary; exciting; amazing; bewildering; differentiated; cosmic; baffling; increasing; technical.

Verbs for Complexity

attend with—; comprehend—; confine—; delve into—; disintegrate—; dispose of—; dissolve—; embrace—; evolve—; extricate from—; investigate—; involve—; reduce—; regard—; result in—; simplify—; solve—; sweep away—; —amazes; —discourages; —puzzles; —vanishes.

Synonyms for Complexity

• complicacy

Antonyms for Complexity

• simplicity

Derived terms

• complexity theory
• space complexity
• time complexity
• Kolmogorov complexity

Related terms

• complexus
• complicate

Thesaurus

complication, convolution, crabbedness, crampedness, deepness, difficultness, difficulty, esoterica, hairiness, hardness, inscrutability, intricacy, involvement, knottiness, laboriousness, onerousness, oppressiveness, profoundness, profundity, reconditeness, rigor, rigorousness, ruggedness, strenuousness, toilsomeness, toughness, troublesomeness

Etymology

complex

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kəmˈplɛk.sɪ.ti/

Translations

The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement

Arabic: تعقيد (ar) (taʕqīd) m. Armenian: բարդություն (hy) (bardut’yun) Bulgarian: сложност (bg) f., обърканост (bg) f. Catalan: complexitat (ca) f. Chinese: trad. 複雜性, simpl. 复杂性 (fùzá xìng) Czech: složitost (cs) f. Dutch: ingewikkeldheid (nl) f., complexiteit (nl) f. Estonian: keerulisus (et) Finnish: monimutkaisuus (fi), mutkikkuus (fi) French: complexité (fr) f. Galician: complexidade (gl) f. German: Vielfalt (de) f. Greek: περιπλοκότητα (el) (periplokótita) f. Hebrew: מורכבות (he) (murkavut) f.

Hungarian: bonyolultság (hu) Italian: complessità (it) f. Japanese: 複雑さ (ja) (ふくざつさ, fukuzatsusa) Latvian: sarežģītība (lv) Lithuanian: sudėtingumas (lt) m. Polish: złożoność (pl) f. Portuguese: complexidade (pt) f. Romanian: complexitate (ro) f. Russian: сложность (ru) (slóžnost') f. Slovak: zložitosť (sk) f. Slovene: zapletenost (sl) f. Spanish: complejidad (es) f. Turkish: karmaşıklık (tr)

That which is complex; intricacy; complication

Armenian: բարդություն (hy) (bardut’yun) Catalan: complexitat (ca) f. Danish: indviklethed (da) c., kompleksitet (da) c. Dutch: gecompliceerdheid (nl) f., verwikkeling (nl) f., complexiteit (nl) f. Estonian: keerukus (et) Finnish: monimutkaisuus (fi), vaikeus (fi), ongelma (fi), hankaluus (fi) French: complexité (fr) f. Galician: complexidade (gl) f. German: Komplexität (de) f., Schwierigkeit (de) f. Greek: περιπλοκή (el) (periplokí) f. Hungarian: bonyodalom (hu), komplikáció (hu) Italian: complessità (it) f.

Latvian: komplicētība (lv) Lithuanian: painumas (lt) m. Norwegian: floke (no) m. and f., forvikling (no) m. Polish: zawiłość (pl) f. Portuguese: complexidade (pt) f. Romanian: complexitate (ro) f. Slovak: zložitosť (sk) f. Slovene: zapletenost (sk) f. Spanish: complejidad (es) f. Swedish: komplikation (sv) c., krånglighet (sv) c. Turkish: karmaşık (tr)