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obscurity

noun

1 obscurity

The quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand.

synonyms: abstruseness, obscureness, reconditeness.

Roget 475: uncertainty, incertitude, doubt; doubtfulness etc. adj.; dubiety, dubitation, dubitancy, dubitousness.    hesitation, suspense; perplexity, embarrassment, ... show more

Roget 876: commonalty, democracy; obscurity; low condition, low life, low society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the people, mass of society; Brown Jones and Robinson; lower classes, humbler classes, ... show more

Roget 519: unintelligibility; incomprehensibility, imperspicuity; inconceivableness, vagueness etc. adj.; obscurity; ambiguity etc. 520; doubtful meaning; uncertainty etc. ... show more

Roget 421: darkness etc. adj., absence of light; blackness etc. (dark color) 431; obscurity, gloom, murk; dusk etc. (dimness) ... show more

Roget 571: obscurity etc. (unintelligibility) 519; involution; hard words; ambiguity etc. 520; unintelligibleness; vagueness etc. 475, inexactness ... show more

Roget 426a: turbidity, cloudiness, fog, haze, muddiness, haziness, obscurity.    nephelometer [instrument to measure turbidity].

Dutch: obscuriteit, onduidelijkheid
Polish: mglistość, niejasność, mętność

2 obscurity

An obscure and unimportant standing; not well known.

3 obscurity

The state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination.

synonym: obscureness.


Moby thesaurus: Egyptian darkness, Erebus, a nobody, a nothing, abstruseness, adiaphanousness, ambiguousness, amorphia, amorphism, amorphousness, anarchy, anonymity, arcanum, blackness, bleariness, blobbiness, blur, blurriness, broadness, chaos ... show more.

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