| 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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