Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being complex; complexity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being complex or involved; complication.

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  • noun The state or quality of being complexed.

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Examples

  • Two things have made moral ideas to be thought incapable of demonstration: their unfitness for sensible representation, and their complexedness.

    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

  • Secondly, From the complexedness of these moral ideas there follows another inconvenience, viz. that the mind cannot easily retain those precise combinations so exactly and perfectly as is necessary in the examination of the habitudes and correspondences, agreements or disagreements, of several of them one with another; especially where it is to be judged of by long deductions, and the intervention of several other complex ideas to show the agreement or disagreement of two remote ones.

    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

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