Hypertext Webster Gateway: "abstruseness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Abstruseness \Ab*struse"ness\, n.
The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension.
--Boyle.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
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