complexification

Definition

The act or process of making something more complex.

Etymology

From complex + -ification.

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."

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