Abstruseness
hard to understand; recondite; esoteric:
abstruse theories.
obsolete. secret; hidden.
historical examples
he further impressed his contemporaries by his psychological profundity and abstruseness.
friedrich nietzsche georg brandes
but abstruseness is a quality appertaining to no subject per se.
eureka: edgar a. poe
abstruseness in expression is very frequently regarded as an indication of profundity.
the young man and the world albert j. beveridge
it was true that she had it upside down; but, as he remarked, that only added to the abstruseness of the subject.
katharine frensham beatrice harraden
the most wrinkled æson of an abstruseness leaps rosy out of his bubbling genius.
sh-lley francis thompson
it is the abstruseness of the proposition which stimulates research—which stirs profoundly the brain of the thinking world.
in search of the unknown robert w. chambers
and the important fact is that this abstruseness is not verbal, any more than it is the abstruseness of fog and cloud.
critical miscellanies, vol. i john morley
adjective
not easy to understand; recondite; esoteric
adj.
1590s, from middle french abstrus (16c.) or directly from latin abstrusus “hidden, concealed, secret,” past participle of abstrudere “conceal,” literally “to thrust away,” from ab- “away” (see ab-) + trudere “to thrust, push” (see extrusion). related: abstrusely; abstruseness.
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