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The quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand
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abstruseness
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand [syn: obscureness , obscurity , reconditeness ] [ant: clarity ] wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs" ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abstruseness \Ab*struse"ness\, n. The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension. --Boyle.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The property of being abstruse; abstrusity. (First attested in the mid 17 th century.) (R:SOED5: page=10)
Usage examples of abstruseness.
Our predominant motive or intention is, indeed, frequently concealed from ourselves when it is mingled and confounded with other motives which the mind, from vanity or self-conceit, is desirous of supposing more prevalent: but there is no instance that a concealment of this nature has ever arisen from the abstruseness and intricacy of the motive.
Whenever he found something objectionable in Knecht's way of thinking, he blamed it on that "modern" Castalian spirit with its abstruseness and its fondness for frivolous abstractions.
In any case – except for the runes (Anglo-Saxon) and the dwarf-names (Icelandic), neither used with antiquarian accuracy, and both regretfully substituted to avoid abstruseness for the genuine alphabets and names of the mythology into which Mr Baggins intrudes – I am afraid my professional knowledge is not directly used.
The abstruseness of the text never did help me concentrate at the best of times and on this evening my mind was racing with feelings of anxiety and conflict.