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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Intricacy \In"tri*ca*cy\, noun; 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.
Freed from intricacies, taught to live The easiest way. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
intricacy
noun: marked by elaborately complex detail [syn: {elaborateness}, {elaboration}, {involution}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "intricacy": abstruseness, arduousness, bothersomeness, burdensomeness, complexity, complexness, complication, convolution, crabbedness, crampedness, deepness, difficultness, difficulty, entanglement, esoterica, hairiness, hardness, intricateness, involution, involvement, knottiness, laboriousness, onerousness, oppressiveness, perplexity, profoundness, profundity, ramification, reconditeness, rigor, rigorousness, ruggedness, strenuousness, subtlety, tanglement, technicality, toilsomeness, toughness, troublesomeness
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