Ĭn’tri-ca-cy, n.

n. [From intricate.] The state of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; 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.

Synonyms—Perplexity; complication; complexity.