abstruseness
/æb'stru:snis/
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Definition
- Noun:
- The quality of being difficult to understand; obscurity: "Abstruseness" refers to the state or characteristic of being complex, profound, or not easily grasped by the mind.
- Profound or recondite wisdom: It can also denote knowledge or ideas that are deep, esoteric, and not readily accessible to common understanding.
Examples of Usage
- Noun:
- The abstruseness of the philosophical text made it suitable only for advanced scholars.
- He was frustrated by the abstruseness of the legal document's language.
- The abstruseness of her theories meant they were often misunderstood.
Advanced Usage
- "To be lost in abstruseness": To be completely unable to understand something due to its extreme complexity.
- The lecture on quantum mechanics left most of the audience lost in abstruseness.
Variants and Related Words
- Abstruse (adj): Difficult to understand; obscure.
- The professor's abstruse lecture confused the students.
- Abstrusely (adv): In a manner that is difficult to understand.
- The concept was explained so abstrusely that no one followed it.
Synonyms
- Obscurity: The state of being unclear or unknown.
- Reconditeness: The quality of being profound, obscure, or little known.
- Profundity: Deep insight or knowledge.
- Complexity: The state of having many interconnected parts, making something complicated.
Antonyms
- Clarity: The quality of being clear and easy to understand.
- Simplicity: The quality of being easy to understand or do.
- Lucidity: Clearness of thought or style.
Related Idioms and Phrases
- "Veiled in abstruseness": Describes something that is deliberately or inherently made difficult to comprehend.
- The ancient manuscript's meaning was veiled in abstruseness.
Noun
- wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound
- the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs
- the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand