abstruseness
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ab·struse
(ăb-stro͞os′, əb-)adj.
Difficult to understand; recondite: The students avoided the professor's abstruse lectures.
[Latin abstrūsus, past participle of abstrūdere, to hide : abs-, ab-, away; see ab-1 + trūdere, to push; see treud- in Indo-European roots.]
ab·struse′ly adv.
ab·struse′ness n.
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Noun | 1. | abstruseness - the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand incomprehensibility - the quality of being incomprehensible |
2. | abstruseness - wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs" wisdom - accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment |
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Translations
إبْهَام، غُمُوض
nepochopitelnost
uklarhedutilgængelighed
homályosság
margslunginn, torskilinn
nezrozumiteľnosť
anlaşılmazlıkçapraşıklık
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abstruseness
n → abstruse Unklarheit
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abstruse
(əbˈstruːs) adjective difficult to understand. abstruse reasoning.
abˈstruseness nounKernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.