Crossword clues for abstrusity
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abstrusity \Ab*stru"si*ty\ ([a^]b*str[udd]"s[i^]*t[y^]), n.
Abstruseness; that which is abstruse. [R.]
--Sir T. Browne.
Wiktionary
n. (context archaic English) abstruseness; that which is abstruse. (First attested in the mid 17th century.)(R:SOED5: page=10)
WordNet
n. wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs" [syn: reconditeness, abstruseness, profoundness, profundity]
Usage examples of "abstrusity".
I had behaved like a bull in a china shop, because that which could not be figured out by anthropology and ethnography, with their field research, or by the profoundest philosophical reflection -- meditation on "human nature," and which defied prepositional formulation in both neurophysiology and ethology, and which provided fertile ground for ever-proliferating metaphysics, for psychological abstrusity, and for psychoanalysis classical and linguistic, and God knows what other esoteric study -- I had attempted to cut through, like the Gordian knot, with my proof contained in nine printed pages.