intricacy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun marked by elaborately complex detail
    elaboration; involution; elaborateness.

WordNet

In"tri*ca*cy noun
Etymology
From Intricate.
Wordforms
plural Intricacies
Definitions
  1. The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot.
    Freed from intricacies, taught to live The easiest way. Milton.

Webster 1913