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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) 519involutionhard wordsambiguity etc. 520unintelligiblenessvagueness etc. 475, inexactness etc. 495what d'ye call 'em etc. (neologism) 563darkness of meaning.

adjective

obscure etc. n. — crabbed, involved, confused.

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