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knottiness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of knottiness

the state or quality of having many interrelated parts or aspects

  • the staggering knottiness of the legal procedure that we had to go through
Synonyms of knottiness

complexity, complexness, complicacy, complicatedness, complication, elaborateness, intricacy, intricateness, involution, sophistication
Words Related to knottiness

diversity, heterogeneity, heterogeneousness, multifariousness

impenetrability, incomprehensibility, inexplicability
Near Antonyms of knottiness

simplification

homogeneity, uniformity
Antonyms of knottiness

plainness, simpleness, simplicity

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