knottiness

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Thân thiện

The knottiness of the problem required careful thought.

Definition

Noun: 1. Puzzling complexity; intricate difficulty: The quality or state of being complicated, intricate, or difficult to understand or solve. It implies a situation or problem that is tangled and not easily unraveled.

Examples of Usage

• The knottiness of the legal case required months of research by the attorneys.
• He was fascinated by the mathematical knottiness of the problem.
• The knottiness of the plot made the novel a challenging but rewarding read.
• We underestimated the knottiness of the political negotiations.

Advanced Usage

• "To get to the heart of the knottiness": To understand or address the core of a complex problem.
  • The mediator's skill was in getting to the heart of the knottiness in the dispute.
• "A knottiness of issues": A collection of intertwined, complex problems.
  • The project was delayed by a knottiness of technical and logistical issues.

Variants and Related Words

• Knotty (adj): Full of knots; intricate, difficult, or puzzling.
  • The board faced a knotty problem with no easy solution.
• Knot (n): A fastening made by tying a piece of string, rope, etc.; a tangled mass; a difficult problem or intricacy.
  • She tied a knot in the ribbon. The story was full of narrative knots.

Synonyms

• Complexity
• Intricacy
• Complication
• Convolutedness
• Perplexity
• Difficulty

Antonyms

• Simplicity
• Clarity
• Straightforwardness
• Easiness

Học thuật

Noun

1. puzzling complexity

Từ đồng nghĩa

• complicatedness
• complication
• tortuousness