Synonyms of complexity

complexity

noun

kəm-ˈplek-sə-tē 

1

as in complexness

the state or quality of having many interrelated parts or aspects

the complexity of the company's computer system is such that a full-time employee is needed to maintain it

Synonyms & Similar Words

• complexness
• sophistication
• intricacy
• elaborateness
• complicatedness
• involution
• complication
• heterogeneity
• diversity
• knottiness
• complicacy
• intricateness
• multifariousness
• incomprehensibility
• impenetrability
• inexplicability
• heterogeneousness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• simplicity
• simplification
• uniformity
• plainness
• simpleness
• homogeneity

2

as in difficulty

something that makes a situation more complicated or difficult

the political complexities that the secretary-general must deal with

Synonyms & Similar Words

• difficulty
• complication
• intricacy
• convolution
• headache
• complicacy
• subtlety
• matter
• ramification
• fly in the ointment
• side effect
• technicality
• trouble
• aftereffect
• annoyance
• inconvenience
• bitch
• bother

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of complexity

Ruth Madeley, who stars in Being Heumann, found a different kind of complexity in portraying disability rights activist Judy Heumann. — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2026

The plants and fungi in his garden had dried up, and summer puddles, with their flamboyant biological complexity, had long frozen over. — Molly Herring, Quanta Magazine, 21 Oct. 2026

What Baldwin is lamenting is our tendency to fall back on binaries — right and wrong, good and evil — rather than to struggle with complexity. — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026

For many families, international complexity develops gradually. — Elie Nour, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026