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English Dictionary: abstruseness by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
abstruseness
n
  1. the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand
    Synonym(s): obscureness, obscurity, abstruseness, reconditeness
    Antonym(s): 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"
    Synonym(s): reconditeness, abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, profundity
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Abstruseness \Ab*struse"ness\, n.
      The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension.
      --Boyle.
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