abstruseness
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- noun
- /æbˈstruːsnəs/
- Formal
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abstrusidad
- Reducing abstrusivity: if you want to read the works of philosophers and linguists, you have to skim through, over, and across their 'abstruseness'.
Examples
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Use of the frontier metaphor grafts electronic abstruseness onto a sociospatial process with a long and complicated history.
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The above was an attempt to reduce the abstruseness that non-Machean philosophizing, such as that of Chomsky, Noys et al., is hung up in.
Blog text (19) -
In an economic outlook paper released Thursday, Makin dissects a policy whose abstruseness might easily obscure the true risks and rewards at the heart of a Fed policy the AEI scholar terms not QE3 but rather QE3+.
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Not that there isn't deliberately abstruse SF—Neuromancer much?—or that lit fic doesn't have perfectly good reasons for that abstruseness.
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Many people found the abstruseness of the philosopher's arguments frustrating.
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The abstruseness of the legal jargon made it difficult for the layperson to understand the contract.
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Students often struggle with the abstruseness of certain scientific theories due to their complexity.
Synonyms
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Many connected parts make something hard to understand
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Lack of clear or exact meaning that makes things hard to understand
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Hard to understand or see, making people feel confused
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Hard to find or understand
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How hard something is to understand because it is unclear
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A state where something is very hard to understand
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A quality that you cannot understand or know the reasons for
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A quality of being hard to understand and making people curious
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Something that is very hard to understand
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A difficulty understanding handwriting, signs, or codes
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A very clever and difficult puzzle or plan that confuses people
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Unclear or hidden information that is hard to understand
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A state in which something is out of sight and hard to notice or understand
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A state when something cannot be explained or understood
The quality of being very difficult to understand because it is complex
Difficulty understanding something because it is very complex
Very hard to understand because the ideas are unclear or complicated
You cannot easily understand or picture it in your mind
How hard it is to understand something because its meaning is unclear
State of being hard to understand
Information or speech that is hard to understand and causes confusion
A situation when something is hard to understand
A state of being unclear with no definite meaning or edges
A state of being mysterious and hard to understand
A quality of being mysterious and hard to understand
Writing that is hard to understand or enjoy
A state of being unclear and hard to understand
Antonyms
How Difficult
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Abstruseness comes from Latin: ab- 'away' and struere 'to build', which formed abstruere 'to hide'. You can see the same root in structure 'building', so abstruseness is like something 'built away' or hidden, and that is why it is hard to understand.