Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Abstruseness; that which is abstruse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Abstruseness; that which is abstruse.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound
Etymologies
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abstruse + -ity
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Examples
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Whether women were in politics or the wash-house was a sociological abstrusity beyond his line of thought, and not though it cost him all his fortune to refuse could he have decently addressed any association even on beloved sporting matters.
Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916
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For your bonus bedtime track this week, I’ve decided to double up on (I suppose?) relative abstrusity, author-wise.
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