intricacy

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

intricacy
    n 1: marked by elaborately complex detail [syn: {elaborateness},
         {elaboration}, {intricacy}, {involution}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Intricacy \In"tri*ca*cy\, n.; pl. {Intricacies}. [From
   {Intricate}.]
   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.
   [1913 Webster]

         Freed from intricacies, taught to live
         The easiest way.                         --Milton.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

39 Moby Thesaurus words for "intricacy":
      abstruseness, arduousness, bothersomeness, burdensomeness,
      complexity, complexness, complication, convolution, crabbedness,
      crampedness, deepness, difficultness, difficulty, entanglement,
      esoterica, hairiness, hardness, intricateness, involution,
      involvement, knottiness, laboriousness, onerousness,
      oppressiveness, perplexity, profoundness, profundity, ramification,
      reconditeness, rigor, rigorousness, ruggedness, strenuousness,
      subtlety, tanglement, technicality, toilsomeness, toughness,
      troublesomeness

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