crypticness
- noun
- /ˈkrɪptɪk.nəs/
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críptico
- The poet's crypticness made her work intriguing, as readers struggled to decipher the deeper meanings behind her words.
Examples
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Or take the next example, a discussion of contemporary homes and a peak moment of crypticness, a passage in which I cannot find a single clue as to its meaning.
Academic text (1998) -
Since Jackson generally was a lucid and concrete writer, these episodes of crypticness are likely to produce in readers the conviction that their inability to understand is their fault.
Academic text (1998) -
His crypticness in conversation often left his friends puzzled, wondering what he truly meant.
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The crypticness of the ancient manuscript has baffled historians for centuries, leaving many questions unanswered.
Synonyms
660
4.7
Something that is hard to understand or explain
5
7.4
Hard to understand or see, making people feel confused
3
7.4
Hard to find or understand
2
8.3
How hard something is to understand because it is unclear
1
9.9
A quality that you cannot understand or know the reasons for
1
5.2
A quality of being hard to understand and making people curious
1
9.9
A difficulty understanding handwriting, signs, or codes
1
9.9
Difficulty understanding something because it is complex or unclear
1
7.8
A state in which something is out of sight and hard to notice or understand
A state of being mysterious and hard to understand
Very hard to understand because the ideas are unclear or complicated
How hard it is to understand something because its meaning is unclear
Difficulty understanding something because it is very complex
State of being hard to understand
Antonyms
How Mysterious
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9.9
660
4.7
57
6.3
5
7.4
152
3.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Crypticness comes from the Greek root crypt- meaning 'hidden', the same root you see in crypt and encrypt. So, crypticness is the quality of being mysterious or hard to understand because the meaning is kept 'hidden'.