abstruseness n 1: the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand [syn: {obscureness}, {obscurity}, {abstruseness}, {reconditeness}] [ant: {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" [syn: {reconditeness}, {abstruseness}, {abstrusity}, {profoundness}, {profundity}]
Abstruseness \Ab*struse"ness\, n. The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension. --Boyle. [1913 Webster]