Abstrusive

//əbˈstɹuː.sɪv// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of abstruse quality. rare

    "...and I have given the reader such a dose of mathematics, psychology, and all that is abstrusive, that I fear that he may already have left me,..."

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"...and I have given the reader such a dose of mathematics, psychology, and all that is abstrusive, that I fear that he may already have left me,..."

Etymology

From Latin abstrūs-, past participial stem of abstrūdō, + -ive. By surface analysis, abstruse + -ive.

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