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    RECONDITENESS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understandplay

    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 profoundplay

    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)

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