complexity

English

Etymology

From complex +‎ -ity. Partially displaced native English manifoldness.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kəmˈplɛk.sɪ.ti/
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Noun

complexity (countable and uncountable, plural complexities)

(uncountable) The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.
Synonym: complicacy

Antonym: simplicity
(countable) That which is and renders complex; intricacy; complication.
Synonym: complicacy
- 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter VIII, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, pages 84–85:
  The battle was like the grinding of an immense and terrible machine to him. Its complexities and powers, its grim processes, fascinated him.
(number theory) The smallest number of ones that can be used to represent a given integer, using no other digits and any number of additions, multiplications, and parentheses.
The complexity of an integer is always within a constant factor of its logarithm.

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Translations

the state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement

Arabic: تَعْقِيد m (taʕqīd)
Armenian: բարդություն (hy) (bardutʻyun)
Bulgarian: сложност (bg) f (složnost), обърканост (bg) f (obărkanost)
Catalan: complexitat f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 複雜性 / 复杂性 (zh) (fùzáxìng)
Czech: složitost (cs) f
Dutch: ingewikkeldheid (nl) f, complexiteit (nl) f
Estonian: keerulisus
Finnish: monimutkaisuus (fi), mutkikkuus (fi)
French: complexité (fr) f
Galician: complexidade (gl) f
Georgian: სირთულე (sirtule), ჩახლართულობა (čaxlartuloba), კომპლექსურობა (ḳomṗleksuroba)
German: Kompliziertheit (de) f, Komplexität (de) f
Greek: περιπλοκότητα f (periplokótita)
Hebrew: מורכבות f (murkavut)
Hungarian: bonyolultság (hu), komplikáltság (hu)
Indonesian: kompleksitas (id), kekompleksan, kerumitan (id)
Interlingua: complexitate
Irish: castacht f
Italian: complessità (it) f
Japanese: 複雑さ (ふくざつさ, fukuzatsusa)
Latin: complexitās f
Latvian: sarežģītība f
Lithuanian: sudėtingumas m
Malay: kerumitan, kekompleksan
Malayalam: സങ്കീർണ്ണത (saṅkīṟṇṇata)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kompleksitet m

Nynorsk: kompleksitet m
Old English: maniġfealdnes f
Polish: złożoność (pl) f, zawiłość (pl) f
Portuguese: complexidade (pt) f
Romanian: complexitate (ro) f
Russian: сло́жность (ru) f (slóžnostʹ)
Slovak: zložitosť f
Slovene: zapletenost f
Spanish: complejidad (es) f
Swedish: komplexitet (sv) c
Turkish: karmaşıklık (tr)
Welsh: cymhlethdod m, dryswch m, astrusi m

that which is complex; intricacy; complication

Armenian: բարդություն (hy) (bardutʻyun)
Catalan: complexitat f
Danish: indviklethed c, kompleksitet c
Dutch: gecompliceerdheid (nl) f, verwikkeling (nl) f, complexiteit (nl) f
Estonian: keerukus
Finnish: monimutkaisuus (fi), vaikeus (fi), ongelma (fi), hankaluus (fi)
French: complexité (fr) f
Galician: complexidade (gl) f
Georgian: სირთულე (sirtule), ჩახლართულობა (čaxlartuloba)
German: Komplexität (de) f, Schwierigkeit (de) f, Komplikation (de) f
Greek: περιπλοκή (el) f (periplokí)
Hungarian: bonyodalom (hu), komplikáció (hu)
Italian: complessità (it) f
Latvian: komplicētība f
Lithuanian: painumas m
Malayalam: സങ്കീർണ്ണം (ml) (saṅkīṟṇṇaṁ)
Norwegian: floke m or f, forvikling m
Old English: maniġfealdnes f
Polish: zawiłość (pl) f
Portuguese: complexidade (pt) f
Romanian: complexitate (ro) f
Russian: сло́жность (ru) f (slóžnostʹ)
Slovak: zložitosť f
Slovene: zapletenost f
Spanish: complejidad (es) f
Swedish: komplikation (sv) c, krånglighet (sv) c
Turkish: karmaşık (tr)