abstruseness
Example Sentences
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Robust ratings prevail, while the departure of Amanda "middle distance" Burton in 2004 has seen wilful abstruseness replaced by a slicker, Spooks-ier, less overtly guff approach.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 12, 2011
Milnor is also known as a great expositor, whose books are low on abstruseness and high on simple, common-sense explanations.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 23, 2011
If abstruseness is your subject – and it's hard to find any other for C – you have to get it right.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 17, 2010
The abstruseness of the contest winners’ writing is deceptive.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
The difficulty of learning the dead languages does not arise from any superior abstruseness in the languages themselves, but in their being dead, and the pronunciation entirely lost.
From Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason by Moncure Daniel Conway
