About The Word Obscurity

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Obscurity

Obscurity Meaning & Definition
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

\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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