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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 profoundplay

2. the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understandplay

  Familiarity information: RECONDITENESS used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RECONDITENESS (noun)


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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