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Definitions of abstruse in various dictionaries:
adj - difficult to penetrate
Difficult to understand; recondite.
adj - difficult to understand
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| Possible Dictionary Clues |
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| Difficult to understand recondite. See Synonyms at ambiguous. |
| difficult to penetrate incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge |
| difficult to understand: |
| Difficult to understand obscure. |
| difficult to understand obscure. |
| Pedantic |
| Not obvious |
| Not plain |
| Not simple |
| Not understand |
| Abstruse description |
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| Obscurantism ( and ) is the practice of deliberately presenting information in an imprecise and recondite manner, often designed to forestall further inquiry and understanding. There are two historical and intellectual denotations of Obscurantism: (1) the deliberate restriction of knowledgeopposition to disseminating knowledge; and, (2) deliberate obscurityan abstruse style (as in literature and art) characterized by deliberate vagueness.The term obscurantism derives from the title of the 16th-century satire Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum (151519, Letters of Obscure Men), that was based upon the intellectual dispute between the German humanist Johann Reuchlin and the monk Johannes Pfefferkorn of the Dominican Order, about whether or not all Jewish books should be burned as un-Christian heresy. Earlier, in 1509, the monk Pfefferkorn had obtained permission from Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (14861519), to burn all copies of the Talmud (Jewish law and Jewish ethics) known to be in the Ho |