complexifier
English
Etymology
complexify + -er
Noun
complexifier (plural complexifiers)
- Someone or something that introduces complexity (into an issue or situation)
- 1992, Philip E. Tetlock, “Good Judgment in International Politics: Three Psychological Perspectives”, Political Psychology, vol. 13, no. 3 (September 1992), pp. 517–539, 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 . . .”
- 1992, Philip E. Tetlock, “Good Judgment in International Politics: Three Psychological Perspectives”, Political Psychology, vol. 13, no. 3 (September 1992), pp. 517–539, page 527:
Usage notes
The 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.
French
Conjugation
Conjugation of complexifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | complexifiant /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fjɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | complexifié /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fje/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | complexifier | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | complexifiant /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fjɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | complexifie /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fi/ |
complexifies /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fi/ |
complexifie /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fi/ |
complexifions /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fjɔ̃/ |
complexifiez /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fje/ |
complexifient /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fi/ |
| imperfect | complexifiais /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fjɛ/ |
complexifiais /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fjɛ/ |
complexifiait /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fjɛ/ |
complexifiions /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fi.jɔ̃/ |
complexifiiez /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fi.je/ |
complexifiaient /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fjɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | complexifiai /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fje/ |
complexifias /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fja/ |
complexifia /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fja/ |
complexifiâmes /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fjam/ |
complexifiâtes /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fjat/ |
complexifièrent /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fjɛʁ/ | |
| future | complexifierai /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fi.ʁe/ |
complexifieras /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fi.ʁa/ |
complexifiera /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fi.ʁa/ |
complexifierons /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fi.ʁɔ̃/ |
complexifierez /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fi.ʁe/ |
complexifieront /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | complexifierais /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fi.ʁɛ/ |
complexifierais /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fi.ʁɛ/ |
complexifierait /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fi.ʁɛ/ |
complexifierions /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
complexifieriez /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fi.ʁje/ |
complexifieraient /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.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.plɛɡ.zi.fi/ |
complexifies /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fi/ |
complexifie /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fi/ |
complexifiions /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fi.jɔ̃/ |
complexifiiez /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fi.je/ |
complexifient /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fi/ |
| imperfect2 | complexifiasse /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fjas/ |
complexifiasses /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fjas/ |
complexifiât /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fja/ |
complexifiassions /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fja.sjɔ̃/ |
complexifiassiez /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fja.sje/ |
complexifiassent /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fjas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | complexifie /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fi/ |
— | complexifions /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fjɔ̃/ |
complexifiez /kɔ̃.plɛɡ.zi.fje/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “complexifier” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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