[f. TANGLE v.1 + -MENT.] The fact or condition of being tangled; an instance of this; a tangle.
1831. J. Wilson, Unimore, ii. 199. All matted thick with briery tanglement Like Indian Jungle.
1879. J. Morison in Expositor, IX. 122. A little tanglement of phraseology.
1892. Chamberss Jrnl., 6 Aug., 508/2. We lay utterly helpless amidst this tanglement of weeds.