complexification
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.26 in modern English
34
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "All this represents a change in American society, and a complexification of it."
- "This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the history of the universe to our eyes. In its own way, matter obeyed from the beginning that great law of biology to which we shall have to recur time and time again, the law of 'complexification'."
- "In Elise Boulding's analysis, the conservative qualities of woman's mysteries chose not to keep pace with the complexification of urban life."
- "For rational beings will of course try simple things first and thereafter be driven step by step towards an ever enhanced complexification"
- "A new complexification occurs when the situation becomes desperate through crashing marginal returns on increasing complicatedness."
- "The development of protolanguage into modern human language, and the complexification of language more generally, can only occur when language users can successfully communicate even while they maintain different internal representations of language."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *pel- Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ-der. Proto-Italic *plektōder. Latin plectō Latin complector Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin complexuslbor. French complexebor. English complex Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -ficātiō Old French -ificationbor. Middle English -ificacioun English -ification English complexification From complex + -ification.