Obscurity
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English
Noun
Obscurity (plural obscurities)- Darkness; the absence of light
- The state of being unknown; a thing that is unknown
- The quality of being difficult to understand; a thing that is difficult to understand
Related terms
Adjectives for Obscurity
patient; habitual; deep; obscene; comparative; elusive; humble; ever-deepening; impenetrable; dark; polite; hopeless; smooth; dense; unmerited.
Verbs for Obscurity
bury in—; doom to—; drag from—; drive into—; drown in—; exile to—; face—; fade into—; languish in—; perplex with—plunge into—; retire into—; return to—; sink into—; slip into—; —shields; —veils.
Thesaurus
Egyptian darkness, Erebus, 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, entropy, 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
