reconditeness
- noun
- /ˌrɛkənˈdaɪtnəs/
- Formal
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reconditez
- Many readers struggle with the reconditeness of academic texts that require a deep understanding of specialized terminology.
Examples
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His lecture on metaphysics was criticized for its reconditeness, making it hard for the audience to follow.
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Literature between the technical reconditeness of the sciences on the one hand, and of music and architecture, for example, on the other, has precisely the greatest disciplinary vulnerability (openness to concepts not much mitigated by the possibility of technical preoccupations) to intellectual currents.
Academic text (1990) -
The reconditeness of certain philosophical arguments often deters newcomers from engaging with the subject.
Synonyms
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5.0
Many connected parts make something hard to understand
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7.4
Hard to understand or see, making people feel confused
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7.4
Hard to find or understand
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8.3
How hard something is to understand because it is unclear
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9.9
A state where something is very hard to understand
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9.9
A quality that you cannot understand or know the reasons for
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5.2
A quality of being hard to understand and making people curious
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9.9
A quality that makes facts and events impossible to find out or fully understand
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9.9
Difficulty understanding something because it is complex or unclear
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9.9
A difficulty understanding handwriting, signs, or codes
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9.8
A state when something cannot be explained or understood
The quality of being very difficult to understand because it is 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
A quality of being mysterious and hard to understand
A state of being mysterious and hard to understand
Writing that is hard to understand or enjoy
Information or speech that is hard to understand and causes confusion
A quality that makes something hard to understand or solve
Having many parts or details that are hard to understand
A quality of having many twists that makes paths or ideas hard to follow
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Etymology
Reconditeness comes from Latin parts re- and condere, where condere means 'to hide' or 'put away', so it originally described something 'kept hidden'. Think of an idea put away in a locked box; that's why reconditeness means something is hard to understand or very obscure.