# Dynamic Complexity

> The degree to which interpreting declarative configuration at runtime adds hidden dynamic complexity.

Record: `lexicon:dynamic-complexity`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Declarative Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/declarative-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-dynamic-complexity

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Declaration Drift](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/declaration-drift.md) and before [Explicitness](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/explicitness.md).

## Category

- [Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/metadata-self-description-declarative-systems.md)

## In tension with

- [Declarative Configuration](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/declarative-configuration.md)
- [Declarative Configuration / Dynamic Complexity](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/declarative-configuration-dynamic-complexity.md)

## Linked from

- [Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-metadata-self-description-declarative-systems.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)