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Meaning of Intricacy | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
ˈɪn.tɹɪ.kə.si

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being intricate or entangled.
  2. Perplexity.
  3. Something which is intricate or complex.

Equivalents

Examples

“the intricacy of a knot”
“the intricacy of accounts”
“the intricacy of a cause in controversy”
“The breadth of Creation makes it impossible for us to step back far enough to see the story that the tapestry tells; the intricacy of it, from the macro to the micro to the subatomic, makes it impossible for us to comprehend the megatrillions of connections between the threads in just one small fragment of the whole.”
“There are many intricacies in the plot of this novel.”
“With the most patient assiduity he peered into the intricacies of unrevealed structure. No object was too minute, none too large, for his attention.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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