Noun: abstruseness ub'stroos-nus
- The quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand
"The abstruseness of the philosophical argument deterred casual readers";
- obscureness, obscurity, reconditeness
- The quality of being difficult to understand or obscurely profound
"The abstruseness of the philosophical text challenged even expert readers";
- reconditeness, abstrusity, profoundness, profundity
Type of: incomprehensibility, wisdom
Antonym: clarity
Encyclopedia: Abstruseness