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Another word for entanglement

entanglement Synonyms

entanglement

n.

complexity, involvement, complication, snare; see affair 2, confusion 2, difficulty 1, 2.

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Another word for entanglement

noun

The condition of being entangled or implicated:
embranglement, embroilment, enmeshment, ensnarement, involvement. See free, participate
Something that is intricately and often bewilderingly complex:
cat's cradle, jungle, knot, labyrinth, maze, mesh (often used in plural), morass, skein, snarl², tangle, web. See simple

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He skilfully avoided entanglement in the Jackson-Calhoun imbroglio.
They had rated each other highly in the entanglement, and by mutual consent began repeating the performance regularly.
He had not the genius to find a way out of the French entanglement or the skill to steer a constitutional monarchy between rival factions.
The chief success of the government lay in the field of foreign politics, where it prudently avoided entanglement in the ambitious schemes of Hellenistic monarchs, but gained great prestige by energetic interference against aggressors who threatened the existing balance of power or the security of the seas.
From this theological entanglement the problem of free will did not escape for long centuries.

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