Word of the day: Esoteric

Phonetic: /es· o· ter· ic/
Part of Speech: Adjective
Definition
designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone
a body of esoteric legal doctrine …
—Benjamin N. Cardozo

: requiring or exhibiting knowledge that is restricted to a small group
esoteric terminology

The titles of some concert tours can be a bit esoteric.
—Matt Wake



Some of the film’s winking references are more esoteric than others, and a lot of wordplay and in-jokes are potentially lost on a non-Japanese audience: some of them are … basically untranslatable.
—Kambole Campbell


broadly : difficult to understand
esoteric subjects