Abstruseness \Ab*struse"ness\, n.
The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension.
--Boyle.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
abstruseness
n 1: the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to
understand [syn: obscureness, obscurity, reconditeness]
[ant: clarity]
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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