obscurity
Roget category 571
4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means
#571.
Obscurity
noun
obscurity
etc.
(unintelligibility)
519 —
involution —
hard words —
ambiguity
etc.
520 —
unintelligibleness —
vagueness
etc.
475,
inexactness
etc.
495 —
what d'ye call 'em
etc.
(neologism)
563† —
darkness of meaning.
adjective
obscure
etc.
n. —
crabbed,
involved,
confused.
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