complication

COMPLICATION, n.

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.