spinosityn.
/spʌɪˈnɒsɪti/ 1. The quality of being spinose or thorny. Chiefly figurative.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > depth, obscurity > [noun]
deepnessa1000
subtletya1387
difficultyc1405
mistiheadc1425
darknessc1450
obscurity1474
profoundnessc1475
obscureness1509
profundity1559
perplexity1563
opacity1575
darksomeness1583
perplexednessa1586
deptha1593
spinosity1605
abstruseness1628
abstrusity1649
inevidence1673
enigmaticalness1684
dark1699
indistinctness1704
confusion1729
reconditeness1779
obfuscity1832
oracularity1840
irrecognizability1847
recondity1856
unrecognizableness1865
crypticity1892
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [noun] > instance of > sharp > quality
sharpnessa1325
spinosity1605
snippiness1935
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Mm3v The part of humane Philosophie..seemeth but a Net of subtiltie and spinositie . View more context for this quotation
1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness vi. xviii. 275 The acuteness and spinosity of harsh and dry Opinions.
2. A rude or disagreeable remark; an argument or theory of a difficult and unprofitable character.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > a breach of good manners
solecism1599
incivility1652
spinosity1653
false Latin1665
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > putting forward for discussion > [noun] > unprofitable argument
ignorance of the elenchea1529
ignoratio elenchi1559
spinosity1653
1653 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix in Wks. (1713) 105 Many spinosities and cutting passages that often happen unawares in..conversation.
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 283 He..was not unseen in their subtilties and spinosities.
1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. vi. 330 Without running through all the scholastic spinosities upon this occasion.
1836 H. Smith Tin Trumpet II. 121 Amid the dry spinosities and tortuous labyrinths of theology.
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