complication

About 5.28 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act or process of complicating.
2. noun The state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; complexity.
3. noun A person who doesn't fit in with the main scheme of things; an interloper.
4. noun A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
5. noun A feature beyond basic time display in a timepiece.
6. noun A twisting or intertwining.

Similar words

complicatedness snarl tangle knottiness ramification complicating complexity complex nodus problem

Often followed by

of is in rate and that rates to was

Word family

complications