The quality of being hard to understand, answer, or explain; complexity, obscurity; an instance of this.

Mystical significance; mystery; an instance of this.

Obscurity of meaning; opacity, abstruseness; unintelligibility.Obsolete.

The quality or condition of being obscure, unclear, or unknown; = obscurity, n.

Lack of clarity in expression; uncertainty of meaning; unintelligibility.

Lack of clearness (in various senses).

The quality or fact of being difficult to understand.

transferred and figurative. (Very common in the 17th cent.)

The quality or fact of being difficult to understand; abstruseness.

Lack of perspicuity or clarity, esp. in speech or writing; obscurity, opacity.

The quality of being recondite.

In extended use: obscurity or vagueness, esp. of language or thought.

State or quality of being cramp or cramped; confinedness.

Reconditeness; an instance of this.