COMPLEXITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does complexity mean? 

• COMPLEXITY (noun)
  The noun COMPLEXITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being intricate and compounded

  Familiarity information: COMPLEXITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPLEXITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being intricate and compounded

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

complexity; complexness

Context example:

he enjoyed the complexity of modern computers

Hypernyms ("complexity" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Attribute:

simple (having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved)

complex (complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "complexity"):

complicatedness; complication; knottiness; tortuousness (puzzling complexity)

elaborateness; elaboration; intricacy; involution (marked by elaborately complex detail)

tapestry (something that resembles a tapestry in its intricacy)

trickiness (the quality of requiring skill or caution)

Antonym:

simplicity (the quality of being simple or uncompounded)

Derivation:

complex (complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts)

complexify (make complex)

 Context examples 

However, due to the complexity of its chemical components, the exact mechanism of action of this agent remains to be determined.

(Blue Citrus-Based Herbal Capsule, NCI Thesaurus)

Terminology associated with the lesion complexity codelist of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC SDTM Lesion Complexity Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

The number of proteins on the surface of B cell proteins indicates the complexity of regulation of B cell activation.

(B Lymphocyte Cell Surface Molecule Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

An adenomyoma characterized by the presence of marked glandular architectural complexity.

(Atypical Polypoid Adenomyoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The purported mechanism(s) of action is unclear due to the complexity of the herbal mixture.

(Arnebia Indigo Jade Pearl Topical Cream, NCI Thesaurus)

An adenomyoma that arises from the cervix and is characterized by the presence of a glandular component exhibiting architectural complexity.

(Cervical Atypical Polypoid Adenomyoma, NCI Thesaurus)

This multi-antigen/multi-pathway targeting strategy provides broad immunotherapeutic coverage with respect to tumor complexity and heterogeneity and may result in enhanced vaccine efficacy.

(IMT-1012 Immunotherapeutic Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Its exact pharmacology is not fully understood due to the complexity of the herbal mixture and may involve multiple metabolic pathways.

(PC-SPES, NCI Thesaurus)

Nor could I consider the magnitude and complexity of my plan as any argument of its impracticability.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

There is cellular atypia, increased layering of cells, complexity of glands, and papillary formations.

(Ovarian Mucinous Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)