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verwikkeling — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • complexity noun The state of having many interconnected parts, making something hard to understand or manage.
  • entanglement noun The state of being twisted together or caught up in something physical, or the tangled mass itself.
  • intricacy noun The state or quality of being intricate or entangled.

Senses

verwikkeling is used for these senses in English:

  • complexity (countable) That which is and renders complex; intricacy; complication.
  • entanglement The state or condition of being entangled; intricate and confused involution.
  • intricacy The state or quality of being intricate or entangled.
  • plot twist A change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot of a film, novel, or other narrative work.

entanglement — full definition

  1. noun The state of being twisted together or caught up in something physical, or the tangled mass itself.
  2. noun A complicated or compromising involvement with someone or something, especially a romantic or sexual relationship that is difficult to get out of.
  3. noun In physics, a quantum effect in which two or more particles share a single combined state, so that measuring one instantly determines the corresponding property of the other however far apart they are.

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