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RECONDITENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand
Synonyms:
abstruseness; obscureness; obscurity; reconditeness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("reconditeness" is a kind of...):
incomprehensibility (the quality of being incomprehensible)
Derivation:
recondite (difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound
Example:
the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs
Synonyms:
abstruseness; abstrusity; profoundness; profundity; reconditeness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("reconditeness" is a kind of...):
wisdom (accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment)
