abstrusity
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əbˈstɹuː.sə.ti/
- (US) IPA(key): /æbˈstɹu.sə.ti/, /əbˈstɹu.sə.ti/
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Noun edit
abstrusity (countable and uncountable, plural abstrusities)
- (archaic) Abstruseness; that which is abstruse. [First attested in the mid 17th century.][1]
References edit
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abstrusity”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.