Antonyms for abstruseness
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : ab-stroos |
Phonetic Transcription : æbˈstrus |
Definition of abstruseness
Origin :- 1590s, from Middle French abstrus (16c.) or directly from Latin abstrusus "hidden, concealed, secret," past participle of abstrudere "conceal," literally "to thrust away," from ab- "away" (see ab-) + trudere "to thrust, push" (see extrusion). Related: Abstrusely; abstruseness.
- As in mystery : noun puzzle, secret
- As in perplexity : noun mystery
- As in puzzler : noun mystery
- But abstruseness is a quality appertaining to no subject per se.
- Extract from : « Eureka: » by Edgar A. Poe
- It was true that she had it upside down; but, as he remarked, that only added to the abstruseness of the subject.
- Extract from : « Katharine Frensham » by Beatrice Harraden
- It is the abstruseness of the proposition which stimulates research—which stirs profoundly the brain of the thinking world.
- Extract from : « In Search of the Unknown » by Robert W. Chambers
- The most wrinkled Æson of an abstruseness leaps rosy out of his bubbling genius.
- Extract from : « Shelley » by Francis Thompson
- He further impressed his contemporaries by his psychological profundity and abstruseness.
- Extract from : « Friedrich Nietzsche » by Georg Brandes
- Abstruseness in expression is very frequently regarded as an indication of profundity.
- Extract from : « The Young Man and the World » by Albert J. Beveridge
- And the important fact is that this abstruseness is not verbal, any more than it is the abstruseness of fog and cloud.
- Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I » by John Morley
Synonyms for abstruseness
- abstruseness
- brainteaser
- braintwister
- charade
- chiller
- cliffhanger
- closed book
- conundrum
- crux
- cryptogram
- difficulty
- enigma
- grabber
- inscrutability
- inscrutableness
- mindboggler
- mystification
- occult
- oracle
- perplexity
- poser
- problem
- puzzle
- puzzlement
- puzzler
- question
- rebus
- riddle
- rune
- secrecy
- sixty-four-thousand-dollar question
- sphinx
- stickler
- stumper
- subtlety
- teaser
- thriller
- tough nut to crack
- twister
- whodunit
- why
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