abstruseness

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English

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Etymology

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From abstruse +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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abstruseness (countable and uncountable, plural abstrusenesses)

  1. The property of being abstruse; abstrusity. [First attested in the mid 17th century.][1]

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References

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  1. ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abstruseness”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.