abstruseness 1. The quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand; obscureness. 2. Wisdom that is recondite (little known; obscure), abstruse, and profound; 'The university students were confused by the professor's abstruseness in his lectures.' 3. Difficult to comprehend. Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/2193/