KNOTTINESS Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

knottiness

noun

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the state or quality of having many interrelated parts or aspects the staggering knottiness of the legal procedure that we had to go through

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Europe operates three other high-performance research reactors with similar core complexities.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2026
Look, for example, at how even today’s AI has repeatedly solved mathematical problems within weeks or months — problems whose complexity had been foiling human mathematicians for decades or longer.

— Keith Tidman, Baltimore Sun, 24 Sep. 2026

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