English noun: abstruseness |
1. | abstruseness (attribute) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand |
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| Synonyms | obscureness, obscurity, reconditeness |
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| Broader (hypernym) | incomprehensibility |
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| Antonyms | clarity, clearness, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity |
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2. | abstruseness (cognition) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound |
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| Samples | The anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs.
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| Synonyms | abstrusity, profoundness, profundity, reconditeness |
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| Broader (hypernym) | wisdom |
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