Abstruseness

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Abstruseness \Ab*struse"ness\, n.
     The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension.
     --Boyle.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  abstruseness
       n 1: the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to
            understand [syn: {obscureness}, {obscurity}, {reconditeness}]
            [ant: {clarity}]
       2: wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the
          anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the
          native proverbs" [syn: {reconditeness}, {abstrusity}, {profoundness},
           {profundity}]