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recondite
English
Etymology
The adjective is derived from Latin reconditus (“concealed, hidden; difficult to understand, unintelligible; shy, withdrawn”), perfect passive participle of recond? (“to conceal, hide; to put away; to re-establish, put back”) + -tus (suffix forming adjectives having the sense ‘provided with’). Recond? is derived from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + cond? (“to conceal, hide; to put away, store; to put together; to build, establish; to fashion, form”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?- (“to do, make; to place, put”)). The English word is cognate with Catalan recòndit (“hidden; private”), Italian recondito (“hidden, recondite”), Middle French recondit (“hidden; secret”), Portuguese recôndito (“hidden, secluded; isolated, remote”), Spanish recóndito (“hidden, recondite”).
The noun is probably derived from the adjective.
The verb is derived from Latin recondere, the present active infinitive of recond?; see above.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???k(?)n?da?t/, /???k?nda?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???k?n?da?t/, /???k?n?da?t/, /?i?k?n?da?t/
- Hyphenation: re?cond?ite
Adjective
recondite (comparative more recondite, superlative most recondite)
- (of areas of discussion or research) Difficult, obscure.
- Difficult to grasp or understand; abstruse, profound.
- Little known; esoteric, secret.
- (of scholars) Having mastery over one's field, including its esoteric minutiae; learned.
- (of writers) Deliberately employing abstruse or esoteric allusions or references; intentionally obscure.
- 1788, Vicesimus Knox, Winter Evenings, II. v. i. 109
- They afford a lesson to the modern metaphysical and recondite writers not to overvalue their works.
- 2004 Autumn, American Scholar, 129
- The voices of recondite writers quoted at length, forgotten storytellers weaving narratives, obscure scholars savaging one another.
- 1788, Vicesimus Knox, Winter Evenings, II. v. i. 109
- Difficult to grasp or understand; abstruse, profound.
- (somewhat archaic) Hidden or removed from view.
- 1649, John Bulwer, Pathomyotomia, ii. ii. 108
- The Eye is somewhat recondit betweene its Orbite.
- 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Letters, I. 209
- My recondite eye sits distent quaintly behind the flesh-hill, and looks as little as a tomtit's.
- 1823, Charles Lamb, Old Benchers in Elia, 190
- The young urchins,... not being able to guess at its recondite machinery, were almost tempted to hail the wondrous work as magic.
- 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Canoe Speaks" in Underwoods
- ...following the recondite brook,
- Sudden upon this scene I look,
- And light with unfamiliar face
- On chaste Diana's bathing-place
- 2002, Nick Tosches, In the Hand of Dante, 253
- Silent calligraphy sounds that were like those of the sweet fluent water of a recondite stream.
- (botany, entomology, obsolete, rare, of a structure) Difficult to see, especially because it is hidden by another structure.
- 1825, Thomas Say, Say's Entomol., Glossary, 28
- Recondite, (aculeus) concealed within the abdomen, seldom exposed to view.
- 1825, Thomas Say, Say's Entomol., Glossary, 28
- (chiefly zoology, rare) Avoiding notice (particularly human notice); having a tendency to hide; shy.
- Synonym: retiring
- 1835, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 125, 361
- Animals of this class are so recondite in their habits... so little known to naturalists beyond the more common species.
- 1649, John Bulwer, Pathomyotomia, ii. ii. 108
Derived terms
- reconditely
- reconditeness
Translations
Noun
recondite (plural recondites)
- (rare) A recondite (hidden or obscure) person or thing.
- (rare) A scholar or other person who is recondite, that is, who has mastery over his or her field, including its esoteric minutiae.
Verb
recondite (third-person singular simple present recondites, present participle reconditing, simple past and past participle recondited)
- (transitive, obsolete, rare) To conceal, cover up, hide.
References
Further reading
- recondite at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- centeroid, decretion, red notice, tenrecoid
Italian
Adjective
recondite
- feminine plural of recondito
Anagrams
- condirete, decretino, intercedo
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /re?kon.di.te/, [r??k?n?d??t??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /re?kon.di.te/, [r??k?n?d?it??]
Verb
recondite
- second-person plural present active imperative of recond?
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superficiality
English
Etymology
superficial +? -ity
Noun
superficiality (countable and uncountable, plural superficialities)
- The property of being superficial, the tendency to judge by surface appearance.
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