abstruse, esoteric, compendious, prolix, idiosyncratic, arcane, lit crit, obtuse, latinate, nonliterary, ludic, erudite, inscrutable, philological, overdetermined, prosaic, sententious, lexicographical, unacademic, sophistic, musicological, polysyllabic, overfamiliar, untutored, discursive, pedantic, gnomic, mot juste, banal, aphoristic, differential calculus, unversed, unpoetic, jamesian, formalistic, nabokovian, labyrinthine, delphic, mozartian, obscure, essayistic, rebarbative, talmudic, sophoclean, ungifted, demotic, epistemological, boolean algebra, logical positivism, existentialist philosophy, tricksy, nouveau roman, aristotelian logic, contentless, belles lettres, unmusical, hemingwayesque, metrical, subjunctive, sesquipedalian, perspicuous, gustave flaubert, holmesian, ferdinand de saussure, digressive, aleatory, epigrammatic, exoteric, shavian, exegetical, ludwig wittgenstein, taxonomical, comprehensible, eggheaded, unschooled, metaphysical, bookish, wordy, illuminative, shakespearean sonnet, orotund, kabbalistic, pellucid, rarefied, allusive, incommunicable, unscholarly, idiomatic, highbrow, slyer, pretentious, positivistic, homiletic, undecipherable, ratlike, scholarly, denotative, dialectical materialism, quotidian, irenic, acidulous, hegelian, profounder, fundamental, nonhistorical, mundane, pertinent, philosophic, abstract, astrological, embryological, juristic, parapsychological, understood, unrevealed, controverted, ethnological

abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, profundity, reconditeness

abstruse, deep, esoteric