abstruseness

1. 1.

   the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand

   Synonymsobscurenessobscurityreconditeness

   Broaderincomprehensibility
2. 2.

   wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound

   “the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs”

   Synonymsreconditenessabstrusityprofoundnessprofundity

   Broaderwisdom

Other forms of abstruseness

plural

abstrusenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about abstruseness

What does abstruseness mean?

abstruseness means "the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in abstruseness?

abstruseness has 4 syllables: ab-stru-se-ness. The stress falls on "stru".

What is another word for abstruseness?

Close synonyms include obscureness, obscurity, reconditeness, reconditeness, abstrusity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is abstruseness a common word?

abstruseness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.