Visionary vs Abstruse - What's the difference?
visionary | abstruse | Related terms |
having vision or foresight
* Alexander Pope
imaginary or illusory
prophetic or revelatory
* Thomson
idealistic or utopian
someone who has visions; a seer
an impractical dreamer
someone who has positive ideas about the future
(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 :
Visionary is a related term of abstruse.
As adjectives the difference between visionary and abstruse
is that visionary is having vision or foresight while abstruse is (obsolete) concealed or hidden out of the way; secret .As a noun visionary
is someone who has visions; a seer.visionary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Or lull to rest the visionary maid.
- The visionary hour / When musing midnight reigns.
- a visionary scheme or project
- (Jonathan Swift)
Noun
(visionaries)abstruse
English
Adjective
(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.