ABSTRUSENESS Synonyms: 76 Similar and Opposite Words

abstruseness

noun

Definition of abstruseness

as in obtuseness

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For all their complexity, once built, data centers don't require a large workforce for operations, and don't always generate a huge number of new jobs or vast amounts of tax revenue.

— Lora Kolodny,Jeniece Pettitt, CNBC, 16 July 2026
Network effects Birwadker believes that stablecoins will be central to the future of financial infrastructure and that, at this early stage, Visa must hide the technical complexity so customers can solely focus on the payment experience.

— Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 16 July 2026

Definition of complexity

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Argentina will be a significant step up in difficulty but England have enough attacking quality to trouble the reigning champions.

— Abdul Rehman, New York Times, 14 July 2026
But in keeping with its protagonist’s difficulty staring at his feelings head-on, The Vampire Lestat—and the marketing that preceded its premiere—doesn’t start with ballads or sensual odes to far-reaching love.

— Hannah Giorgis Yohannes, Vanity Fair, 13 July 2026

Definition of difficulty

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Several months later, the medical examiner updated its statement to say that laboratory tests showed that Trachtenberg died from complications of diabetes.

— Martha Ross, Mercury News, 17 July 2026
Writing Bobby was a refuge, a place to cast off the daily complications of experiencing the world in a woman’s body.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026

Definition of complication

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What The Dark Wizard does differently is grapple with Potter’s impenetrability without being able to resolve it, and consider how that indecision might change our perceptions of his life and his May 2015 death while BASE jumping in Yosemite.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 May 2026
Byrne is generous with his time and attention, but there’s also a Warholian air of mystery about him—a gentle impenetrability, a feeling of separateness.

— Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025

Definition of impenetrability

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