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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand;
[syn: obscureness, obscurity, abstruseness, reconditeness]

2. wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound;
- Example: "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs"
[syn: reconditeness, abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, profundity]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]