Opaque vs Recondite - What's the difference?
opaque | recondite |
Neither reflecting nor emitting light.
Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent.
(figuratively) Unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of
(figuratively) Obtuse, stupid.
(computing) Describes a type for which higher-level callers have no knowledge of data values or their representations; all operations are carried out by the type's defined abstract operators.
(obsolete, poetic) An area of darkness; a place or region with no light.
* 1745 , Edward Young, Night-Thoughts , I:
Something which is opaque rather than translucent.
To make, render (more) opaque.
(of areas of study and literature) Difficult, obscure; particularly:
# Abstruse, profound, difficult to grasp
#* 1619 , John Bainbridge, Astronomicall description of the late comet , 42
#* ante'' 1894 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), ''Amateur Emigrant (1895), 40
# Esoteric, little known; secret
#* 1644 , John Bulwer, Chirologia: or The naturall language of the hand. Whereunto is added Chironomic or the Art of manuall rhetoricke , 137
#* 1722 , F. Lee, Epistolary Discourses , 41
#* 1817 , (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), Biographia Literaria , I. iii. 65
#* 1849 , (Herman Melville), Mardi: and A Voyage Thither , II. §67
#* 1921 , (Joseph Conrad), Secret Agent'', Preface in ''Works , VIII. page xvii
#* 1948 , (William Somerset Maugham), Catalina , xv. 83
#* 1992 Autumn, American Scholar , 576/1
#* 2004 , Alexander McCall Smith, Sunday Philosophy Club , xxi. 224
# (of writers) Deliberately obscure; employing abstruse or esoteric allusions or references
#* 1788 , Vicesimus Knox, Winter Evenings , II. v. i. 109
#* 1817 , (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), Biographia literaria; or, Biographical sketches of my literary life and opinions , II. xxii. 172
#* 2004 Autumn, American Scholar , 129
# (of scholars) Learnèd]], having mastery over one's field, including its esoteric [[minutiæ
#* 1836 , (Edward Bulwer-Lytton), "Sir Thomas Browne" in The Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of Sir Edward Lytton (1841),
#* 1891 , George T. Ferris, The Great German Composers
#* 1998 , , Art for Art's Sake & Literary Life ,
Hidden or removed from view
* 1649 , John Bulwer, Pathomyotomia , ii. ii. 108
* 1796 , (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), Letters , I. 209
* 1823 , (Charles Lamb), Old Benchers in Elia , 190
* 1825 , Thomas Say, Say's Entomol. , Glossary, 28
* 1857 , (Charles Dickens), Little Dorrit , §21
* 1887 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), "The Canoe Speaks" in Underwoods
* 2002 , Nick Tosches, In the Hand of Dante , 253
Shy, avoiding notice (particularly human notice)
* 1835 , Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society , 125, 361
to hide, cover up, conceal
* 1578 , John Banister, The History of Man , i. f. 32
As adjectives the difference between opaque and recondite
is that opaque is neither reflecting nor emitting light while recondite is (of areas of study and literature) difficult, obscure; particularly:.As verbs the difference between opaque and recondite
is that opaque is to make, render (more) opaque while recondite is to hide, cover up, conceal.As a noun opaque
is (obsolete|poetic) an area of darkness; a place or region with no light.opaque
English
(wikipedia opaque)Alternative forms
* opakeAdjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* (physically) see-through, translucent, transparent * (figuratively) clear, obvious, bright, brilliantUsage notes
* The comparative opaquer and superlative opaquest, though formed following valid rules for English, are much less common than more opaque' and ' most opaque and seem to occur more frequently in poetry.Derived terms
* opaquely * opaqueness * radiopaqueNoun
(en noun)- Through this opaque of Nature and of Soul, / This double night, transmit one pitying ray, / To lighten, and to cheer.
Verb
Synonyms
* blur * cloudSee also
* translucentReferences
* * ----recondite
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I hope this new Messenger from Heauen]] doth bring happie tidings of some munificent and liberall Patron... by whose gracious bountie the most recondite mysteries of this abstruse and [[divine, diuine science shall at length be manifested.
- Humanly speaking, it is a more important matter to play the fiddle, even badly, than to write huge works upon recondite subjects.
- There was in the man much learning, and that of the more inward & recondit , a great Antiquary, and one that had a certain large possession of Divine and Humane]] [[laws, Lawes.
- The Apostle Paul had taken up many things out of these Recondite and Apocryphal Writings.
- [Of Southey:] I look in vain for any writer who has conveyed so much information, from so many and such recondite sources.
- But I beseech thee, wise Doxodox! instruct me in thy dialectics, that I may embrace thy more recondite lore.
- Suggestions for certain personages... came from various sources which... some reader may have recognized. They are not very recondite .
- He was never at a loss for a recondite allusion.
- It was hardly foreordained that a poor orphan from darkest Brittany... working in the recondite realms of Semitic philology, should play such a role in his time.
- While oenophiles resorted to recondite adjectives, whisky [sic] nosers spoke the language of everyday life.
- They afford a lesson to the modern metaphysical and recondite writers not to overvalue their works.
- In the play of fancy, , to my feelings, is not always graceful and sometimes recondite .
- The voices of recondite writers quoted at length, forgotten storytellers weaving narratives, obscure scholars savaging one another.
II, 41
- It is delightful to see this recondite scholar — this contemplative and refining dreamer — in the centre of his happy nor unworthy household.
- [Of
] : Our musician rapidly became known far and wide throughout the musical centres of Germany as a learned and recondite composer.
1
- Cousin's lectures take their initial cue from the weighty treatises of a remote, recondite thinker named (Immanuel Kant).
- The Eye is somewhat recondit betweene its Orbite.
- My recondite eye sits distent quaintly behind the flesh-hill, and looks as little as a tomtit's.
- The young urchins,... not being able to guess at its recondite machinery, were almost tempted to hail the wondrous work as magic.
- Recondite , (aculeus) concealed within the abdomen, seldom exposed to view.
- How such a man should suppose himself unwell without reason, you may think strange. But I have found nothing the matter with him. He may have some deep-seated recondite complaint. I can't say. I only say, that at present I have not found it out.
- ...following the recondite brook,
- Sudden upon this scene I look,
- And light with unfamiliar face
- On chaste Diana's bathing-place
- Silent calligraphy sounds that were like those of the sweet fluent water of a recondite stream.
- Animals of this class are so recondite in their habits... so little known to naturalists beyond the more common species.
Verb
(recondit)- Tendons: recondited , and hidde in their Muscle, as if they were in a purse imposed.