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. [ 1913 Webster ]
Freed from intricacies, taught to live The easiest way. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]