recondite
Adjective: - Difficult to understand; abstruse: Describes a subject, idea, or piece of writing that is profound, obscure, and beyond ordinary knowledge or comprehension. It implies depth and complexity that is accessible only to those with specialized learning.
The adjective "recondite" is used to describe knowledge, subjects, theories, or texts that are extremely difficult, obscure, and understood by very few people. It is a formal term, often used in academic or intellectual contexts. - It typically precedes a noun (e.g., a recondite subject). - It can follow a linking verb like "be" or "seem" (e.g., The theory is recondite).
- The book delves into the recondite principles of quantum cosmology.
- Her thesis explored a recondite aspect of medieval law that few scholars have studied.
- To the general public, the philosopher's writings are utterly recondite.
- "Recondite knowledge": Knowledge that is profound, obscure, and known only to a few experts.
- His library was filled with books containing recondite knowledge of alchemy.
- "Recondite scholarship": Academic work that is highly specialized and difficult for non-specialists to access.
- The journal is known for publishing recondite scholarship in philology.
- Reconditeness (noun): The quality or state of being recondite; profound obscurity.
- The reconditeness of the material made it unsuitable for an introductory course.
- Abstruse: Difficult to understand; obscure.
- Esoteric: Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with specialized knowledge.
- Arcane: Understood by few; mysterious or secret.
- Profound: Having deep insight or knowledge.
- Simple: Easily understood or done; presenting no difficulty.
- Straightforward: Uncomplicated and easy to do or understand.
- Accessible: (Of information) able to be understood or appreciated by the general public.
(While "recondite" itself is not commonly used in idioms, it describes the nature of things referenced in certain phrases.) - "The recondite depths of...": Used to emphasize the profound and obscure complexity of a subject. - Few dare to explore the recondite depths of that philosophical tradition.
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difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
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the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them
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a deep metaphysical theory
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some recondite problem in historiography
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