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Abstruseness

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the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The state or quality of being abstruse, or difficult to be understood; difficulty of apprehension.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand

n. wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound

Word Usage

"I mean, assuming the "New Yorker Cartoon Law of Biting Satire", which states that the jocularity of a particular pasquinade is directly proportional to the abstruseness of the language in which you couch it, it was hilarious."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

incomprehensibility wisdom

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