abstrusity

[ ab-stroo-si-tee ]

noun

, plural ab·stru·si·ties

1. the quality or state of being abstruse.
2. an abstruse statement, action, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of abstrusity¹

First recorded in 1625–35; abstruse + -ity

Example Sentences

We are meant to take amusement from the sheer iteration, and increasing abstrusity, of the callbacks to floppy disks, shoulder pads, cassingles, Crystal Pepsi, and Jane Krakowski in the original Broadway production of “Starlight Express.”

From The New Yorker

My mind had been marinating overnight—and for more than a year, really—in the abstrusities of cryptocurrencies and the blockchain technology on which they are built.

From The New Yorker

Into these abstrusities, therefore, it seems necessary to follow this question, to try, if possible, to draw out and combine the elements of truth.

From Project Gutenberg

He was studying those things only which deal with the abstrusities of nature, and this began to breed again a morbid fear of life itself.

From Project Gutenberg

Beside this there were societies where all sorts of abstrusities and absurdities were argued to a standstill.

From Project Gutenberg