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单词 abstrusity
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abstrusityn.

Brit. /əbˈstruːsᵻti/, U.S. /əbˈstrusədi/, /æbˈstrusədi/
Forms: 1600s abstrucity, 1600s– abstrusity.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: abstruse adj., -ity suffix.
Etymology: < abstruse adj. + -ity suffix. Compare earlier abstruseness n.
1. An obscure or esoteric point or question; something that is abstruse.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > [noun]
rounOE
mysteryc1384
sacramentc1384
secrec1386
secret1390
riddlec1400
concealment1598
arcanum1605
Sphinxa1610
abstrusity1632
cryptic1663
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > depth, obscurity > [noun] > instance of
subtletya1387
obscurity1495
difficulty?1504
ambage1520
profundities1582
abstrusity1632
concavity1650
mysterious1836
oracularity1840
Pickwickianism1860
in-reference1967
1632 H. Reynolds Mythomystes 42 Those secreter Mysteries, and abstrusities of most high diuinity.
1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus v, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 197 He may meet with abstrusities of no ready resolution.
1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. vii. 408 To lay open the school-account of this matter, and unravel it through all its abstrusities.
1755 B. Martin Mag. Arts & Sci. viii. 165 Reason, Nature, and Analogy here are but blind Guides; they conduct us with Certainty but a little Way in the Abstrusities of infinite Creation.
1847 Southern & Western Lit. Messenger & Rev. Feb. 128/1 An intelligent female friend..who desired, without going into the abstrusities of the beautiful science of Astronomy, to revive and extend the knowledge of it which she had acquired at school.
1893 Evening Herald (Syracuse, N.Y.) 25 Nov. 2/3 Unfortunately mental disease may result from the persistent dwelling upon almost any abstrusity.
1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. II. iii. xiii. 179 There were criminal lawyers deeply versed in the abstrusities and tricks of the criminal law.
1999 R. King Indian Philos. i. 18 ‘The common folk’..were deemed incapable of understanding the abstrusities and importance of the various Vedic rituals.
2. The quality or fact of being difficult to understand; abstruseness.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > depth, obscurity > [noun]
deepnessa1000
subtletya1387
difficultyc1405
mistiheadc1425
darknessc1450
obscurity1474
profoundnessc1475
obscureness1509
profundity1559
perplexity1563
opacity1575
darksomeness1583
perplexednessa1586
deptha1593
spinosity1605
abstruseness1628
abstrusity1649
inevidence1673
enigmaticalness1684
dark1699
indistinctness1704
confusion1729
reconditeness1779
obfuscity1832
oracularity1840
irrecognizability1847
recondity1856
unrecognizableness1865
crypticity1892
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > [noun] > mysterious state or quality
mysticalness1608
mysterya1616
abstruseness1628
mysteriousness1633
abstrusity1649
mysticity1761
mysticality1834
sphinxineness1845
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > obscurity > [noun]
difficultyc1405
mistiheadc1425
darknessc1450
obscureness1509
obscuritya1522
unclearness1574
unplainness1619
abstruseness1628
umbragec1642
abstrusity1649
imperspicuity1659
reconditeness1779
mistiness1816
crampness1840
recondity1856
1649 W. Charleton in tr. J. B. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes Prolegomena sig. c4v Abstrusity sufficient to empuzle the scrutiny of the most daring and Eagle-eyed Philosophy.
1701 W. Anstruther Ess., Moral & Divine iii. 98 The incomprehensibility arises not from the abstrusity, but from the absurdity of the thing as involving in its essence manifest contradictions.
1793 W. Taplin Gentleman's Stable Dir. II. 313 We take leave of the dry and unentertaining study of medical abstrusity, and proceed to such part of our plan as will prove more entertaining and acceptable.
1839 M. F. Tupper Proverb. Philos. (ed. 3) 285 All will again be for abstrusity.
1867 Michigan Univ. Mag. July 70 A more thorough classical preparation, so that the student..may be prepared to appreciate the beauties of Horace, or the abstrusity of Quintilian.
1924 Musical Times 65 1101/2 That another note added to a chord gives it piquancy..is true up to a point. Beyond that,..it gives to the harmony only obscurity and abstrusity.
1997 D. J. Cahill How Consumers pick Hotel vi. 90 Some of these reports are almost at a level of academic abstrusity, often leaving readers to scratch their heads and wonder what any of it might mean.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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