abstruseness

noun

Definition of abstrusenessnext
as in obtuseness

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  1. complexity
  2. difficulty
  3. complication
  4. profoundness
  5. impenetrability
Noun
  • For each gene, the catalogue would ideally include its technical complexity, which methods can reliably analyze it, and document when a specialized test is required.
    — Euan Ashley, STAT, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The conversation and the word itself, which gives the seventh and final episode its title, unlocks the Biblical underpinnings and the complexities governing many of the main characters.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of complexity
Noun
  • Advantage players, meanwhile, had no difficulty defending betting machines.
    — Kit Chellel, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
  • One limitation of obtaining court orders against counterfeiters is the difficulty of enforcing them in foreign jurisdictions.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of difficulty
Noun
  • The majority of children with severe obesity and its complications were never prescribed a GLP-1.
    — Babak J. Orandi, STAT, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Her mother wrote in the GoFundMe page that her daughter was recovering in the hospital after undergoing surgeries and suffering with breathing complications.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 1 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
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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“Abstruseness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abstruseness. Accessed 6 Oct. 2026.

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