intricacy

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state or quality of being intricate or entangled. countable,uncountable
    — the intricacy of a knot
  2. Perplexity. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  3. Something which is intricate or complex. countable,uncountable
    — There are many intricacies in the plot of this novel.

词形变化

intricacies plural

词源

Etymology tree
English intricate
English -cy
English intricacy
From intricate + -cy.
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