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- you're not the only one who finds Einstein's theory of relativity abstruse
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- academic
- (also academical),
- pedantic
- darkling,
- enigmatic
- (also enigmatical),
- inscrutable,
- mysterious,
- mystic,
- mystical,
- orphic,
- uncanny
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The first known use of abstruse was circa 1549
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