Viduše () is a village in the municipality of Mavrovo and Rostuša, North Macedonia.
Demographics Viduše is attested in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a village in the ziamet of Reka which was under the authority of Karagöz Bey. The village had a total of five households and the anthroponyms recorded depict a mixed Slavic-Albanian character, with clear cases of Slavicisiation: Gjergj Miladinoviqi, Bogiçe Bogoslavi, Petka Malika and Gjure Alekoviqi.
Viduše has traditionally been inhabited by a Torbeš population. p. 214. "Само со Торбеши се населени денеска Жировница, Видуше, Болетин, Аџиефци, Присојница, Скудриње, Горно Косоврасти (во Река),..."
According to the 1942 Albanian census, Viduše was inhabited by 367 Muslim Albanians.
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 185 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 166.
Macedonians 152 Turks 24 Albanians 9
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