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recondite

adjective

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Little known and difficult to understand without specialized knowledge.

A recondite debate about medieval punctuation occupied the final chapter.
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One paragraph offered a recondite account of a lettering convention, requiring knowledge the visitors had no reason to possess.
From Designing an Accessible Exhibition.
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