ABSTRUSENESS

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 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

Meaning:

The quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

abstruseness; obscureness; obscurity; reconditeness

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

incomprehensibility (the quality of being incomprehensible)

Derivation:

abstruse (difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

abstruseness; abstrusity; profoundness; profundity; reconditeness

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)

Derivation:

abstruse (difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge)