noun
- The quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand.
- synonyms: obscureness, obscurity, reconditeness
- Wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound.
- usage: "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs"
- synonyms: reconditeness, abstrusity, profoundness, profundity
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