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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Intricacy

/ĭn'-trək-əs-ē/ · In·tri·ca·cy · IPA /ˈɪn.tɹɪ.kə.si/
01 n. The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved…
pl. Intricacies ((#))
  1. 1.
    The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot.
    “Freed from intricacies, taught to live The easiest way.” Milton.