COMPLICATION, noun 1. The act of interweaving, or involving two or more things or parts; the state of being interwoven, involved or intimately blended. The notions of a confused knowledge are always full of perplexity and complications. 2. The integral consisting of many things involved or interwoven, or mutually united. By admitting a complication of ideas--the mind is bewildered.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI