sealed book
noun
Roget 533:
secret;
dead secret,
profound secret;
arcanum†,
mystery;
latency
etc.
526;
Asian mystery†;
sealed book,
secrets of the prison house;
le desous des cartes [Fr.].
enigma,
riddle,
puzzle,
nut to crack,
conundrum,
charade,
rebus,
logogriph†;
monogram,
anagram;
Sphinx;
crux criticorum [Lat.].
maze,
labyrinth,
Hyrcynian wood;
intricacy,
meander.
problem
etc.
(question)
461;
paradox
etc.
(difficulty)
704;
unintelligibility
etc.
519;
terra incognita
etc.
(ignorance)
491.
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Roget 491:
ignorance,
nescience,
tabula rasa [Lat.],
crass ignorance,
ignorance crasse [Fr.];
unfamiliarity,
unacquaintance†;
unconsciousness
etc.
adj.;
darkness,
blindness;
incomprehension,
inexperience,
simplicity.
unknown quantities,
x,
y,
z.
sealed book,
terra incognita,
virgin soil,
unexplored ground;
dark ages.
[Imperfect knowledge]
smattering,
sciolism†,
glimmering,
dilettantism;
bewilderment
etc.
(uncertainty)
475;
incapacity.
[Affectation of knowledge]
pedantry;
charlatanry,
charlatism†;
Philister†,
Philistine.
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Roget 519:
unintelligibility;
incomprehensibility,
imperspicuity†;
inconceivableness,
vagueness
etc.
adj.;
obscurity;
ambiguity
etc.
520;
doubtful meaning;
uncertainty
etc.
475;
perplexity
etc.
(confusion)
59;
spinosity†;
obscurum per obscurius [Lat.];
mystification
etc.
(concealment)
528;
latency
etc.
526;
transcendentalism.
paradox,
oxymoron;
riddle,
enigma,
puzzle
etc.
(secret)
533;
diagnus vindice nodus [Lat.];
sealed book;
steganography†,
freemasonry.
pons asinorum [Lat.],
asses' bridge;
high Dutch,
Greek,
Hebrew;
jargon
etc.
(unmeaning)
517.
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