complexity

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But this complexity is the work of the understanding; this incomprehensibility is also its work.

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  1. noun The quality or condition of being complex.
  2. noun Something complex: a maze of bureaucratic and legalistic complexities.

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  • And their complexity, their sophistication, is something to really marvel at. —  Michael Pollan gives a plant's-eye view
  • Statistical improbability in the direction of good design -- complexity is another word for this. —  Richard Dawkins on militant atheism
  • So, I thought complexity was attacking me suddenly, so I thought, "Ah, simplicity -- very important." —  John Maeda on the simple life
  • But Socrates was, of course, himself complex, and we can make other sentences in which this complexity is asserted, as, for example, ‘Socrates was snub-nosed’ or ‘Socrates had two legs’. —  My Philosophical Development
  • ;I believe it would be better with, ; she said To that Barrin simply nodded Book II THE SPARK OF LIFE 3655-3863 A.R There is a point-some might say a moment-in scientific experimentation known as the complexity cusp. —  Loren L
 

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  1. from complex, adjective, + -ity; = F. complexité.
 

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/kəmˈplɛksaɪti/
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