intricacy

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Architects tend to work with signature, so that an architect needs a signature and that signature has to work across the scale of houses up to, say, skyscrapers, and that problem of signatures is a thing we're very good at maintaining and working with; and intricacy, which is the relationship of, say, the shape of a building, its structure, its windows, its color, its pattern.

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  1. noun The condition or quality of being intricate; complexity.
  2. noun Something intricate: the intricacies of a census form.

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  • What surprised me was the intricacy -- what others might call convolution -- of the storyline and its philosophical underpinnings. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 03 - September 2003
  • If intricacy is your basis for saying something HAD to be created, then where did God, an omniscient, omnipotent, very intricate being, come from? —  بالاترین
  • The detail, intricacy, and care used in building these ancient constructs is even pain-staking to imagine. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • If all that's confusing, welcome to Illinois politics, where intricacy is the best camouflage for chicanery. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • To be sure, windows (and pcs in general) are complicated and unfortunately, a characteristic trait of this intricacy is its potential for malfunction. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
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complexity ·  subtlety ·  entanglement ·  maze ·  nuance ·  complication ·  working ·  multiplicity ·  ingenuity ·  nicety ·  richness ·  mystery

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intricacy:   intricacies
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