Esoteric (adj)
ee-soh-tehr-ik
Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialised knowledge or interest.
I must have read this word a hundred times before I knew what it meant.
Example sentences
“It may esoteric but that doesn’t make it any less worthy of our time.”
“His books are esoteric and only have a very small reader base.”

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