arcane
Speech parts
1. arcane - Adjective
2. arcane - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Hidden; secret.
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the arcane science of dowsing
A general sense of mistrust toward everyone—national security professionals, government officials, party leaders, and media—transformed an already arcane process into a byzantine nightmare.
Feynman diagrams give a simple visualization of what would otherwise be a rather arcane and abstract formula.
Both the producer and Kurosawa himself attributed this to a misunderstanding: because of the Academy's arcane rules, no one was sure whether Ran qualified as a Japanese film, a French film (due to its financing), or both, so it was not submitted at all.
DeRogatis, p. 76. This emphasis on atmosphere carried through to Adore (described as "arcane night music" in prerelease promotion) citation and the Machina albums (concept records that tell the story of a fictional rock band).
Evolutionary biologists, cultural anthropologist, and probably some other arcane specialties debate what’s learned v. innate.