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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Abstruseness \Ab*struse"ness\, noun The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension. --Boyle.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
abstruseness
noun
1: the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand [syn: {obscureness}, {obscurity}, {reconditeness}] [ant: {clarity}]
2: wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs" [syn: {reconditeness}, {abstrusity}, {profoundness}, {profundity}]
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