abstruseness

abstruseness: noun

1. the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand (Freq. 1)

• Syn: ↑obscureness, ↑obscurity, ↑reconditeness

• Ant: ↑clarity (for: ↑obscurity)

• Derivationally related forms: ↑recondite (for: ↑reconditeness), ↑abstruse, ↑obscure (for: ↑obscurity), ↑obscure (for: ↑obscureness)

• Hypernyms: ↑incomprehensibility

2. wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound

- the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs

• Syn: ↑reconditeness, ↑abstrusity, ↑profoundness, ↑profundity

• Derivationally related forms: ↑profound (for: ↑profundity), ↑profound (for: ↑profoundness), ↑abstruse (for: ↑abstrusity), ↑abstruse

• Hypernyms: ↑wisdom

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Abstruseness — Ab*struse ness, n. The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension. Boyle. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
abstruseness — index ambiguity, mystery Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
abstruseness — abstruse ► ADJECTIVE ▪ difficult to understand; obscure. DERIVATIVES abstrusely adverb abstruseness noun. ORIGIN Latin abstrusus concealed … English terms dictionary
abstruseness — noun see abstruse … New Collegiate Dictionary
abstruseness — See abstrusely. * * * … Universalium
abstruseness — noun The property of being abstruse … Wiktionary
abstruseness — É™b sÉœrdnÉªs /É™b sÉœËd n. quality of being difficult to understand, ambiguity … English contemporary dictionary
abstruseness — n prof.indity, profoundness, depth, deepness, esotericism, esoterism, esotery, recon diteness, abstrusity, abstractness; impenetrability, im penetrableness, incomprehensibility, incomprehen sibleness, inscrutability, inscrutableness,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
abstruseness — ab·struse·ness … English syllables
reconditeness — noun 1. the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand • Syn: ↑obscureness, ↑obscurity, ↑abstruseness • Ant: ↑clarity (for: ↑obscurity) • … Useful english dictionary

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