reconditeness

noun

Definition of reconditenessnext
as in mystery

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  1. mystery
  2. ambiguity
  3. opacity
  4. uncertainty
  5. opaqueness
  6. haziness
  7. nebulousness
  8. murkiness
Noun
  • What happened, Wells' parents say, is a mystery riddled with conflicting stories, implausible explanations and missing details.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 July 2026
  • What happened with ’The Perfect Couple’ is that Netflix wanted a six-episode murder mystery.
    — Wendy Naugle, USA Today, 11 July 2026
Definition of mystery
Noun
  • This ambiguity doesn’t feel entirely intentional, but at least Paksoy’s performance makes her character’s unraveling feel nervy and thrillingly palpable.
    — Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 11 July 2026
  • As stablecoins become more integrated with payments and capital markets, regulators will have less tolerance for ambiguity around how these products are backed and operated.
    — Sean Stein Smith, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
Definition of ambiguity
Noun
  • These sentences are part of a four-plus-page descriptive riff, one of many passages that lend the novel a teeming, avid opacity.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 July 2026
  • An American expat who has fully embraced British eccentricity and emotional opacity, Kimi Murdoch could be a Toni Collette character.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 8 July 2026
Definition of opacity
Noun
  • Kevin Rodriguez eases past Jamal Musiala to flick the ball into the corridor of uncertainty between Manuel Neuer and Jonathan Tah, who had already had a miscommunication earlier in the game.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 14 July 2026
  • This creates uncertainty over which sites contain active weapons and which are merely intended to distract enemy planners.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 14 July 2026
Definition of uncertainty
Noun
  • Scientific consensus is that this opaqueness is caused by hazy banks of clouds that are masking the atmospheres, but what kind of aerosol particles are in the clouds?
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 June 2026
  • International humanitarian law mandates the principles of distinction, proportionality, and necessity, but the opaqueness of drone operations, particularly outside active battlefields, challenges these principles.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026
Definition of opaqueness
Noun
  • The incident quickly became part of Hemingway’s mythos, despite—and perhaps in part because of—the haziness of some of the details.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
  • On the one hand, the film is about how our memories betray us over time, and how this gradual haziness of recollection contributes to a false sense of security that encourages people to remain within them.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 1 June 2026
Definition of haziness
Noun
  • The process of peeling those layers, though, can be disorienting, particularly in a world where attempting to map the nebulousness of self is often interrupted and fragmented by the screen.
    — Rachel Seo, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025
Definition of nebulousness
Noun
  • The murkiness of the injury bled into free agency and Christensen’s Carolina future remains unsettled, despite the team’s unproven depth options on the line, particularly at guard.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 7 July 2026
  • As Raul grapples with telling the story of Elsa’s life, he’s confronted by the murkiness of borrowing from real people for the purposes of fiction.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 19 May 2026
Definition of murkiness
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“Reconditeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reconditeness. Accessed 18 Jul. 2026.

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