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RECONDITENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does reconditeness mean?
• RECONDITENESS (noun)
The noun RECONDITENESS has 2 senses:
1. wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound
2. the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand
Familiarity information: RECONDITENESS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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 ("reconditeness" is a kind of...):
wisdom (accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment)
Sense 2
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 ("reconditeness" is a kind of...):
incomprehensibility (the quality of being incomprehensible)
Derivation:
recondite (difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge)
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