abstruseness

noun

Definition of abstrusenessnext
as in obtuseness

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  1. complexity
  2. difficulty
  3. complication
  4. profoundness
  5. impenetrability
Noun
  • The complexity of the facade work will require detailed planning and coordination, and compliance with historic preservation requirements, the hotel says.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Due to the complexity of the production, the crows were digitally designed, while Prue and Mac were practical handmade puppets.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of complexity
Noun
  • Meeting its director can reveal the uncertainty, the practical difficulties, and the necessary compromises.
    — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2026
  • This is still largely lost due to damage to refineries and the difficulty of exporting products by ship.
    — Mike Sheen, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of difficulty
Noun
  • But because of complications in the delivery room, both women gave birth via caesarean section.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The program provides grants to states, academic institutions and non-profit organizations to gather data on the disease, complications and treatment.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of complication
Noun
  • As a result of that, there’s a profoundness to their relationship.
    — Matt Minton, Variety, 20 July 2026
  • For Twitty, the book’s profoundness resides between the lines.
    — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2026
Definition of profoundness
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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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“Abstruseness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abstruseness. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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