(n.) State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.

abatis absorption adulterous affair adultery advanced work affair amour association balistraria bamboozlement bank banquette barbed-wire entanglement barbican barricade barrier bartizan bastion battlement befooling bluffing breastwork bulwark calculated deception casemate cheval-de-frise circumvallation circumvention cobweb complexity complexness complication conning contact contravallation convolution counterscarp crabbedness cuckoldry curtain deceiving deception deceptiveness defrauding delusion delusiveness demibastion dike drawbridge dupery earthwork embarrassment embroilment enclosure engagement enmeshment ensnarement entrapment escarp escarpment eternal triangle fallaciousness fallacy falseness fence fieldwork flimflam flimflammery flirtation fond illusion fooling forbidden love fortalice fortification glacis hallucination hanky-panky hoodwinking illicit love illusion implication inclusion infidelity intricacy intricateness intrigue involution involvement kidding liaison loophole love affair lunette machicolation mantelet merlon meshes mirage mound outwitting outwork overreaching palisade parados parapet perplexity phantasm portcullis postern gate putting on ramification rampart ravelin redan redoubt relation romance romantic tie sally port scarp sconce self-deception snow job song and dance spoofery spoofing stockade subterfuge subtlety swindling tanglement technicality tenaille toils triangle trickiness tricking unfaithfulness vallation vallum victimization vision web willful misconception wishful thinking work