ABSTRUSENESS Synonyms: 76 Similar and Opposite Words

abstruseness

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Definition of abstruseness

as in obtuseness

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And for projects that reach a certain level of complexity, many developers choose JLL’s project and development services team that’s based in Atlanta to deliver their plans.

— Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 20 Aug. 2026
According to Hannett, the use of bourbon casks doesn’t overpower the complexity that the barley is supposed to bring to the whisky.

— Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of complexity

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Clancy then began taking Zoloft, prompting immediate difficulty, Heilbrun said, recounting the symptoms and treatments in the lead-up to the death of Clancy's children months later in January 2023.

— Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 24 Aug. 2026
The drone in question was powered by a Nvidia minicomputer not sold in Russia but available through resale markets, highlighting the difficulties in denying tech to US adversaries.

— Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of difficulty

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Trachtenberg died in 2025 at 39 from complications of diabetes mellitus.

— Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
Harris's family ordered a brick in honor of her grandfather, Charles Milligan, who died at Delaware County Memorial Hospital from complications of a heart attack in 1986.

— Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of complication

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What The Dark Wizard does differently is grapple with Potter’s impenetrability without being able to resolve it, and consider how that indecision might change our perceptions of his life and his May 2015 death while BASE jumping in Yosemite.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 May 2026
Byrne is generous with his time and attention, but there’s also a Warholian air of mystery about him—a gentle impenetrability, a feeling of separateness.

— Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025

Definition of impenetrability

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