abstruseness

noun

Definition of abstrusenessnext
as in obtuseness

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  1. complexity
  2. difficulty
  3. complication
  4. profoundness
  5. impenetrability
Noun
  • For years, businesses were tethered to their technology vendors due to fear of business disruption and the complexity of building in-house tools.
    — Daniela Sirtori, Fortune, 9 July 2026
  • Its method is both distinguished and derived from nineteenth-century classics, from which Rohmer distills a modernism of variety, ambiguity, complexity, and fragmentation.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 July 2026
Definition of complexity
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Untreated UTIs can lead to dangerous complications like kidney damage, sepsis and even death.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 10 July 2026
  • But bruising is not the only complication patients could face when a nonsurgical beauty treatment goes wrong.
    — Michelle Marchante July 10, Miami Herald, 10 July 2026
Definition of complication
Noun
  • For Twitty, the book’s profoundness resides between the lines.
    — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2026
  • None of us can know the profoundness of their loss.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2026
Definition of profoundness
Noun
  • 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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