Meaning of OBSCURITY
| Pronunciation: | | ub'skyûritee
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | abstruseness, obscureness, obscureness, reconditeness |
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| | Antonyms: | | clarity, clearness, limpidity, lucidity, pellucidity, prominence | | |
| | See Also: | | anonymity, humbleness, incomprehensibility, limbo, namelessness, nowhere, oblivion, semidarkness, standing, unimportance | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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