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• n  the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand
• n  wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound

• The oracle of the American economy, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, spoke again on Tuesday, reporting to Congress in his usual dry abstruseness that the economy remains .
• In one of his small masterpieces, The Climbing Path, L'Hermitage, Pontoise, 1875, he gave a view of roofs through a dappled grid of tree trunks the sort of beautiful abstruseness .
• For compounding abstruseness with misstatement.

• obscureness
• obscurity
• reconditeness
• abstrusity
• profoundness
• profundity

• clarity