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Obscurity

Obscurity Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Obscurity? [n] the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand [n] the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination [n] an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known; "he worked in obscurity for many years" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Obscurity: abstruseness \| obscureness \| obscureness \| reconditeness Related Terms \| Find terms related to Obscurity: a nobody \| a nothing \| abstruseness \| adiaphanousness \| ambiguousness \| amorphia \| amorphism \| amorphousness \| anarchy \| anonymity \| arcanum \| blackness \| bleariness \| blobbiness \| blur \| blurriness \| broadness \| chaos \| cipher \| cloudiness \| common man \| complexity \| confusion \| dark \| darkness \| darkness visible \| dead of night \| defocus \| dimness \| disorder \| dummy \| dusk \| duskiness \| Egyptian darkness \| entropy \| Erebus \| esoterica \| faintness \| feebleness \| figurehead \| filminess \| fog \| fogginess \| formlessness \| fuzziness \| generality \| gloom \| half-visibility \| haze \| haziness \| ill-definedness \| imperviousness to light \| imprecision \| inaccuracy \| inchoateness \| incoherence \| indecisiveness \| indefinableness \| indefiniteness \| indeterminateness \| indistinctness \| indistinguishability \| inexactness \| ingloriousness \| insignificance \| insignificancy \| intense darkness \| intransparency \| intricacy \| jackstraw \| laxity \| lightlessness \| lightweight \| limbo \| little fellow \| little guy \| looseness \| low profile \| man of straw \| mediocrity \| messiness \| mist \| mistiness \| moonlessness \| mumbo jumbo \| murk \| murkiness \| mystery \| mystification \| namelessness \| nebbish \| nebulousness \| night \| nobody one knows \| nonentity \| obfuscation \| obscurantism \| obscuration \| obscure \| obscure darkness \| opacity \| opaque \| opaqueness \| orderlessness \| paleness \| perplexity \| pip-squeak \| pitch-darkness \| pitchy darkness \| punk \| roil \| roiledness \| runt \| scrub \| secret \| semivisibility \| shade \| shadow \| shadowiness \| shapelessness \| shrimp \| small fry \| small potato \| small potatoes \| soft focus \| squirt \| squit \| starlessness \| sunlessness \| swarthiness \| sweepingness \| tenebrosity \| tenebrousness \| the palpable obscure \| total darkness \| turbidity \| turbidness \| uncertainty \| unclarity \| unclearness \| unimportance \| unintelligibility \| unplainness \| vague appearance \| vagueness \| velvet darkness \| weakness \| whiffet \| whippersnapper See Also \| anonymity \| humbleness \| incomprehensibility \| limbo \| namelessness \| nowhere \| oblivion \| semidarkness \| standing \| unimportance Obscurity In Webster's Dictionary \Obscu"rity\, n. [L. obscuritas: cf. F. obscurit['e].] The quality or state of being obscure; darkness; privacy; inconspicuousness; unintelligibleness; uncertainty. Yuo are not for obscurity designed. --Dryden. They were now brought forth from obscurity, to be contemplated by artists with admiration and despair. --Macaulay. Syn: {Darkness}; dimness; gloom. See {Darkness}.

Obscurity Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Obscurity?

[n] the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand
[n] the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination
[n] an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known; "he worked in obscurity for many years"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Obscurity: abstruseness | obscureness | obscureness | reconditeness

Obscurity In Webster's Dictionary

\Ob*scu"ri*ty\, n. [L. obscuritas: cf. F.
obscurit['e].]
The quality or state of being obscure; darkness; privacy;
inconspicuousness; unintelligibleness; uncertainty.

      Yuo are not for obscurity designed.      --Dryden.

      They were now brought forth from obscurity, to be
      contemplated by artists with admiration and despair.
                                               --Macaulay.

Syn: {Darkness}; dimness; gloom. See {Darkness}.

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