English Explanatory Dictionary

complexity

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.
  2. That which is and renders complex; intricacy; complication.

Pronunciation

/kəmˈplɛk.sɪ.ti/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-complexity.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-complexity.wav

Word forms

complexity complexities

Etymology

From complex + -ity. Partially displaced native English manifoldness.

Synonyms

complicacy complexity complexness complicate complicatedness complication complicity intricacy involution sophistication

Antonyms

simplicity incomplexity uncomplexity

Related words

complexus complicate complexification complex

Derived words

attributional complexity biocomplexity chaoplexity complexity class complexity function complexity-hiding proxy complexity theory computational complexity theory cyclomatic complexity geocomplexity hypercomplexity incomplexity irreducible complexity Kolmogorov complexity McCabe's complexity overcomplexity Rademacher complexity space complexity time complexity time-space complexity ultracomplexity uncomplexity
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