"recondite" in the adjective sense
1. abstruse, deep, recondite
difficult to penetrate incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
"the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"
"a deep metaphysical theory"
"some recondite problem in historiography"
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