complexifier
English
editEtymology
editFrom complexify + -er.
Noun
editcomplexifier (plural complexifiers)
- Someone or something that introduces complexity (into an issue or situation)
- 1992 September, Philip E. Tetlock, “Good Judgment in International Politics: Three Psychological Perspectives”, in Political Psychology, volume 13, number 3, page 527:
- Whereas the complexifiers emphasize tolerance of ambiguity, contradiction, and change as critical ingredients for good judgment, the fundamentalists take a starkly different approach.
- 2000, Joseph William Singer, Entitlement: The Paradoxes of Property, Yale University Press, page 213:
- The complexifiers seek to acknowledge and express the contradiction and to articulate reasons for resolving it one way or the other without reference to a single overarching theory or formula.
- 2009, Uldis Roze, The North American Porcupine, Cornell University Press, page 14:
- Again and again, the porcupine has been a teacher, a storyteller of the woods, a complexifier and adorner of the world.
- 2011, Scott Berkun, Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds, BookBaby, pt. 26:
- Complexifiers are averse to reduction. Instinctively they turn basic assignments into quagmires and reject simple ideas until they’re buried in layers of abstraction.
- 2012, Michael Dalton Johnson, Rules of the Hunt, McGraw Hill, page 24:
- The Complexifier is well-meaning but annoying. The first words out of the Complexifier’s mouth are, “Yes but . . .”
Usage notes
editThe word can have positive and negative connotations, depending on the context and the speaker’s viewpoint. A complexifier may introduce much-needed complexity into an issue that would otherwise suffer from unwarranted oversimplification. Or a complexifier may make an essentially simple situation unnecessarily complex.
Further reading
edit- Kelly Tyko (2019 February 7) “Searches for 'apoplectic' and 'complexifier' are trending after Jeff Bezos fires back”, in USA Today, USA Today.
French
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editVerb
editcomplexifier
- to complexify, complicate
Conjugation
editConjugation of complexifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | complexifier | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | complexifiant /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fjɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | complexifié /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fje/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | complexifie /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fi/ |
complexifies /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fi/ |
complexifie /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fi/ |
complexifions /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fjɔ̃/ |
complexifiez /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fje/ |
complexifient /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fi/ |
imperfect | complexifiais /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fjɛ/ |
complexifiais /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fjɛ/ |
complexifiait /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fjɛ/ |
complexifiions /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fi.jɔ̃/ |
complexifiiez /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fi.je/ |
complexifiaient /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fjɛ/ | |
past historic2 | complexifiai /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fje/ |
complexifias /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fja/ |
complexifia /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fja/ |
complexifiâmes /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fjam/ |
complexifiâtes /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fjat/ |
complexifièrent /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fjɛʁ/ | |
future | complexifierai /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fi.ʁe/ |
complexifieras /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fi.ʁa/ |
complexifiera /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fi.ʁa/ |
complexifierons /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fi.ʁɔ̃/ |
complexifierez /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fi.ʁe/ |
complexifieront /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | complexifierais /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fi.ʁɛ/ |
complexifierais /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fi.ʁɛ/ |
complexifierait /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fi.ʁɛ/ |
complexifierions /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
complexifieriez /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fi.ʁje/ |
complexifieraient /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fi.ʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | complexifie /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fi/ |
complexifies /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fi/ |
complexifie /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fi/ |
complexifiions /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fi.jɔ̃/ |
complexifiiez /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fi.je/ |
complexifient /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fi/ |
imperfect2 | complexifiasse /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fjas/ |
complexifiasses /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fjas/ |
complexifiât /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fja/ |
complexifiassions /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fja.sjɔ̃/ |
complexifiassiez /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fja.sje/ |
complexifiassent /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fjas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | complexifie /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fi/ |
— | complexifions /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fjɔ̃/ |
complexifiez /kɔ̃.plɛk.si.fje/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “complexifier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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