The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Freed from intricacies, taught to live
The easiest way.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of intricacy English)
Usage examples of "intricacies".
Roanna was only seven, but she knew the intricacies of kinship, having practically absorbed it through her skin during the hours she'd spent listening to the grown-ups talk about family.
If Mllaba was surprised to learn that a Spacedep officer was conversant with the intricacies of Hrruban government, she did not show it outwardly.
We thought they'd learn Standard at light-speed, long before Keff could pick up on the intricacies of their language, but that wasn't what happened.
The Guild Master was in the unenviable position of having to keep as much memory current as possible to manage the intricacies of his position.
But she'd have had such fun shepherding him, deftly guiding him to learn the intricacies of a new trade, watching his sensitive face perceiving new and marvelous things.
Portside, the towering Mount Garben — named after the senator who had done so much to smooth the expedition’s way through the intricacies of the Federated Sentient Planets’ bureaucracy — dominated the landscape, its cone suitably framed against the bright morning sky.
Aivas responded with a lecture on the intricacies of seven kinds of jet engines, from the simple reaction engines they had learned about, which made little sense even to Master Fandarel, to more complex multistage affairs.
Gray was fascinated by the intricacies of business and finance, so much so that he had willingly bypassed a chance to play pro football in favor of plunging headlong into the business world.
She could sit here all day musing over the intricacies of life, or she could get on with it.
For now she had to devote herself to the intricacies of handing over the reins to Webb, but soon-soon!
But the intricacies of math, whether it dealt with finance or quantum physics, had simply never appealed to her.
She obligingly scooted her chair forward an inch or so, and he launched into the intricacies of his digitalized baby.
Instead she took off the itchy wig and set up the laptop on the rickety table and forced herself to stay awake by plunging into the intricacies of language use that had died out before Christopher Columbus was born.
She had tried to work, but the intricacies of ancient languages, written in an archaic penmanship style, seemed to be beyond her.
Great spans joined the vistas of topology to the infinitesimal intricacies of differentials, or the plodding styles of number theory to the shifting sands of group analysis.