abstruseness

2 definitions found

abstruseness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

abstruseness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

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