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ABSTRUSENESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does abstruseness mean?

• ABSTRUSENESS (noun)
The noun ABSTRUSENESS has 2 senses:

1. the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand
2. wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound

Familiarity information: ABSTRUSENESS used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ABSTRUSENESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

abstruseness; obscurity; reconditeness; obscureness

Hypernyms ("abstruseness" is a kind of...):

incomprehensibility (the quality of being incomprehensible)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

abstrusity; profundity; reconditeness; abstruseness; profoundness

Context example:

the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs

Hypernyms ("abstruseness" is a kind of...):

wisdom (accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment)

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