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Abstrusity

Definition: Abstrusity

Abstrusity

Noun

1. Wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Abstrusity \Ab*stru"si*ty\, noun. Abstruseness; that which is abstruse.. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Abstrusity

Synonyms: abstruseness (n), profoundness (n), profundity (n), reconditeness (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Abstrusity

Language Translations for "abstrusity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Abstrusita.t. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

abstrusityay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Abstrusity"

Words rhyming with "abstrusity" (pronounced 'Ab*stru"si*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability, Alterity, Alternity, Amability, Ambidexterity, Ambiguity, Amenability, Amenity, Amiability, Amicability, Amissibility, Amity, Amorosity, Amovability, Anaplasty, Anfractuosity, Anglicity, Angularity, Angulosity, Anility, Animality, Animosity, Annuity, Annularity, Anonymity, Anteriority, Antiquity, Anxiety, Appetibility, Applicability, Apprehensibiity, Approachability, Appropinquity, Apriority, Aqueity, Aquosity, Aridity, Artificiality, Asininity, Asperity, Assiduity, Assignability, Assimilability, Associability, Astucity, Atomicity, Atrocity, Attainability, Attractability, Attractivity, Audacity, Audibility, Austerity, Authenticity, Authority, Autoplasty, Autostability, availability, Avidity, Banality, Barbarity, Basicity, Batty, BEAUTY, Benignity, Bestiality, Betty, Bibacity, Biblicality, Biformity, Bilaterality, Biplicity, Bipolarity, Bolty, Booty, BOUNTY, Brevity, Bridalty, Brutality, Butty, Caducity, Calamity, Calidity, Caliginosity, Callidity, Callosity, Caloricity, Canonicity, Canthoplasty, Canty, Capability, Capacity, Capillarity, Captivity, Cariosity, Carnality, Carnivoracity, Carnosity, Casualty, Catholicity, Catty, Causality, Cavity, Cecity, Celebrity, Celerity, Centrality, Centricity, Cerebricity, Certainty, Champerty, Changeability, Charity, Chastity, Cheiloplasty, Christianity, Circuity, Circularity, Circumstantiality, Civillty, Clandestinity, Clarity, Clericity, Clivity, Clotty, Coactivity, Coagulability, Coequality, Coessentiality, Coeternity, Cogitability, Cognoscibility, Cohesibility, Collectivity, Colloidality, Columnarity, Combustibility, Comicality, Comity, Commensality, Commensurability, Commodity, Commonalty, Commonty, Communicability, Community, Commutability, Compaternity, Compatibility, Complexity, Complicity, Comprehensibility, Compressibility, Concavity, Concentricity, Conceptibility, Concinnity, Condensability, Condignity, Conditionality, Conducibility, Conductibility, Conductivity, Confinity, Confluxibility, Conformability, Conformity, Confraternity, Confusability, Congeniality, Congruity, Conicality, Conjugality, Connaturality, Connubiality, Consanguinity, Consentaneity, Conspectuity, Conspicuity, Constitutionality, Consubstantiality, Contemporaneity, Contemptibility, Contiguity, Continuity, Contractibility, Contractility, Contrariety, Controllability, Conventionality, Convertibility, Convexity, Convicinity, Conviviality, Cordiality, Coreplasty, Corporality, Corporeality, Corporeity, Corrigibility, Corrodibility, Corrosibility, Corruptibility, Cosurety, Cotqueanity, County, Credibility, Credulity, Criminality, Crinosity, Crocodility, Crudity, Cruelty, Cullibility, Culpability, Cupidity, Curability, Curiality, Curiosity, Curvilinearity, Curvity, Cutty, Cylindricity, Cytty, Damnability, Debility, Debonairity, Deceptivity, Deciduity, Declivity, Deducibility, Defectibility, Defectuosity, Defensibility, Deflagrability, Deformity, Deiformity, Deity, Demisability, Democraty, Demonstrability, Demurity, Density, Deplorability, Depravity, Deputy, Descendibility, Desirability, Despicability, Destructibility, Deteriority, Determinability, Detestability, Devexity, Devotionality, Dexterity, Dextrality, Diaphaneity, Dibasicity, Dicacity, Didacticity, Difficulty, Difformity, Diffusibility, Diffusivity, Digestibility, Dignity, Dilatability, Dimensity, Dimity, Disability, Disassiduity, Discommodity, Discommunity, Disconformity, Discongruity, Discontinuity, Discoverability, Disensanity, Disformity, Dishonesty, Disingenuity, Disloyalty, Disparity, Disproperty, Disputacity, Disquantity, Disreputability, Disrespectability, Dissimilarity, Dissipativity, Dissociability, Dissolubility, Dissolvability, Distensibility, Disunity, Diuturnity, Diversifiability, Diversity, Divinity, Divisibility, Docility, Docity, Domesticity, Dotty, Doty, Doughty, Drasty, Duality, Dubiety, Dubiosity, Ductility, Duplicity, Durability, Durity, Duty, Dynasty, Ebriety, Ebriosity, Eccentricity, Edacity, Edibility, Educability, Efficacity, Effumability, Egality, Egoity, Elasticity, Electorality, Elementality, Elementarity, Eligibility, Ellipticity, Emotivity, Empty, Enmity, Enomoty, Enormity, Entierty, Entirety, Entity, Ephoralty, Epulosity, Equability, Equality, Equanimity, Equilibrity, Equity, Erectility, Essentiality, Eternity, Ethereality. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Abstrusity

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-i-r-s-s-t-t-u-y"

-2 letters: tubaists, turistas.

-3 letters: artists, aurists, startsy, statusy, straits, stratus, tsarist, tubaist, tubists, turbits, turista, yttrias.

-4 letters: airbus, artist, aurist, brassy, bratty, britts, bruits, bursas, bursts, rubati, sabirs, satyrs, sistra, sitars, stairs, starts, status, strait, strati, strays, struts, sturts, sutras, suttas, tarsus, traits, trusts, trusty, trysts, tsuris, tubist, turbit, tussar, urbias, yttria.

-5 letters: abris, abuts, abyss, airts, arsis, artsy, astir, auris, baits, basis, bassi, bassy, basts, batts, battu, batty, bitsy, bitts, bitty, brass, brats, brays, brits, britt, bruit, buras, bursa, burst, busts, busty, butts, butty, byssi, isbas, ratty, risus, rusts, rusty, rutty, sabir, saris, satis, satyr, saury, sayst, sitar, situs, stabs, stair, stars, start, stats, stays, stirs, stray, stria, strut, stubs, sturt, subas, suits, suras, sutra, sutta, tabus, tarsi, tarts, tarty, tasty, tauts, trait, trass, trays, truss, trust, tryst, tsars, tsuba, tubas, urbia, yurta, yurts.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-i-r-s-s-t-t-u-y"
 

+5 letters: substitutionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Abstrusity


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 62 73 74 72 75 73 69 74 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -...    ...    -    .-.    ..-    ...    ..    -    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100010 01110011 01110100 01110010 01110101 01110011 01101001 01110100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#98 &#115 &#116 &#114 &#117 &#115 &#105 &#116 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0062 0073 0074 0072 0075 0073 0069 0074 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35688586848785758691

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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