abstrusity

English

Etymology tree

English abstruse

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Latin -itāsder.

Old French -itebor.

Middle English -ite

English -ity

English abstrusity

From abstruse + -ity.

abstrusity (countable and uncountable, plural abstrusities)

(archaic) Abstruseness; that which is abstruse. [First attested in the mid 17th century.]^[1]

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