INTRICACY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intricacy mean? 

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

1. marked by elaborately complex detail

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTRICACY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by elaborately complex detail

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

elaborateness; elaboration; intricacy; involution

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

complexity; complexness (the quality of being intricate and compounded)

 Context examples 

When Norton wandered into the intricacies of Kant, Kreis reminded him that all good little German philosophies when they died went to Oxford.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

However, engineering tissue that can successfully mimic the intricacies of adult human heart cells is not easy and, until now, had not been achieved in the lab.

(Early stimulation improves performance of bioengineered human heart cells, National Institutes of Health)

Although I possessed the capacity of bestowing animation, yet to prepare a frame for the reception of it, with all its intricacies of fibres, muscles, and veins, still remained a work of inconceivable difficulty and labour.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

And the chief thing demanded by these intricacies of civilisation was control, restraint—a poise of self that was as delicate as the fluttering of gossamer wings and at the same time as rigid as steel.

(White Fang, by Jack London)