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Abstruseness Moderate

Origin: Germanic Old English suffix

Abstruseness has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand

2

wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound

"the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs"

3

The property of being abstruse; abstrusity.

Related Terms
Antonyms
lucidity
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
incomprehensibility wisdom

Origin

This word comes from combining abstruse with the suffix -ness. It originally meant the quality of being difficult to understand or obscure.

Rhyming Words
ess 1ess ress ness tess hess kess wess jess fess yess sess less bess cess mess guess 1aess gless cress
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