Abstruse vs Otherworldly - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Concealed or hidden out of the way; secret.
* 1612 , Thomas Shelton (translator), Miguel de Cervantes (Spanish author), The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha , Part 4, Chapter 15, page 500:
* 1667 , , Paradise Lost :
Difficult to comprehend or understand; recondite; obscure; esoteric.
* 1548 , Bishop John Hooper, A Declaration of the Ten Holy Comaundementes of Almygthye God , Chapter 17 Curiosity, Page 218:
* 1748 , David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 13.
* 1855 , , History of Latin Christianity :
Of, concerned with, or preoccupied with a different world than that of the tangible here and now, such as a heavenly, spiritual, or imaginary world.
*1917 , , God, the Invisible King , ch. 5,
*:Every religion that becomes ascendant, in so far as it is not otherworldly , must necessarily set its stamp upon the methods and administration of the law.
*2007 , Clive Davis, "
*:Dana has the otherworldly temperament of a mystic.
Not belonging to the real world; unnatural; odd and unfamiliar.
*1919 , , Saint's Progress , ch. 7,
*:He had not seen cricket played since the war began; it seemed almost otherworldly , with the click of the bats, and the shrill young voices.
As adjectives the difference between abstruse and otherworldly
is that abstruse is concealed or hidden out of the way; secret while otherworldly is of, concerned with, or preoccupied with a different world than that of the tangible here and now, such as a heavenly, spiritual, or imaginary world.abstruse
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(en-adj)- O who is he that could carrie newes to our olde father, that thou wert but aliue, although thou wert hidden in the most abstruse dungeons of Barbarie; for his riches, my brothers and mine would fetch thee from thence.
- The eternal eye whose sight discerns abstrusest thoughts.
- ...at the end of his cogitacions, fyndithe more abstruse , and doutfull obiections then at the beginning...
- It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have the preference above the accurate and abstruse ;
- Profound and abstruse topics.
Usage notes
* More abstruse and most abstruse are the preferred forms over abstruser and abstrusest.Derived terms
* abstrusely * abstrusenessReferences
External links
* * ----otherworldly
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Adjective
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