An organic electroluminescent element, which at least comprises an anode, a hole injection/transport layer A, a luminescent layer and a cathode, in this order, wherein the hole injection/transport layer A comprises two or more layers each formed by a wet film formation method using a composition which contains a hole-injecting/transporting compound, and satisfies all of the following requirements (a) to (c): (a) the number of kind of the hole-injecting/transporting compound contained in the composition to be used for forming the hole injection/transport layer A is 3 or more in total, with the proviso that when the hole-injecting/transporting compound is a polymer compound, two or more polymer compounds which differ only in copolymerization ratio are regarded to be the same kind; (b) the compositions to be used for forming the at least two layers included in the hole injection/transport layer A each contain, as a hole-injecting/transporting compound, at least one kind of arylamine polymer compound which has a repeating unit having a triarylamine structure therein, the arylamine polymer compounds being different from each other in kind; and (c) when the number of atom present on the path which is the smallest in the number of atoms present thereon, of the paths which each connect the nonaromatic tertiary nitrogen atoms contained in any two triarylamine structures present in each arylamine polymer compound, is taken as N: the minimum number of atoms between nitrogen atoms in the compound, and when the layer located most on the cathode side and the layer located most on the anode side, among the two or more layers each formed using a composition containing the arylamine polymer compound, are expressed by Lc and La, respectively, the maximum value of N for all arylamine polymer compounds contained in the composition to be used for forming the layer Lc is expressed by Nc max, and the minimum value of N for all arylamine polymer compounds contained in the composition to be used for forming the layer La is expressed by Na min, then the Nc max and the Na min satisfy Nc max ≥Na min. (a) the number of kind of the hole-injecting/transporting compound contained in the composition to be used for forming the hole injection/transport layer A is 3 or more in total, with the proviso that when the hole-injecting/transporting compound is a polymer compound, two or more polymer compounds which differ only in copolymerization ratio are regarded to be the same kind; (b) the compositions to be used for forming the at least two layers included in the hole injection/transport layer A each contain, as a hole-injecting/transporting compound, at least one kind of arylamine polymer compound which has a repeating unit having a triarylamine structure therein, the arylamine polymer compounds being different from each other in kind; and (c) when the number of atom present on the path which is the smallest in the number of atoms present thereon, of the paths which each connect the nonaromatic tertiary nitrogen atoms contained in any two triarylamine structures present in each arylamine polymer compound, is taken as N: the minimum number of atoms between nitrogen atoms in the compound, and when the layer located most on the cathode side and the layer located most on the anode side, among the two or more layers each formed using a composition containing the arylamine polymer compound, are expressed by Lc and La, respectively, the maximum value of N for all arylamine polymer compounds contained in the composition to be used for forming the layer Lc is expressed by Nc max, and the minimum value of N for all arylamine polymer compounds contained in the composition to be used for forming the layer La is expressed by Na min, then the Nc max and the Na min satisfy Nc max ≥Na min.