Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of obfuscating or obscuring; also, that which obscures; obscurity; confusion.
Wiktionary
- n. The act or process of obfuscating, or obscuring the perception of something; the concept of concealing the meaning of a communication by making it more confusing and harder to interpret.
- n. Confusion, bewilderment, or a baffled state resulting from something obfuscated, or made more opaque and muddled with the intent to obscure information.
- n. A single instance of intentionally obscuring the meaning of something to make it more difficult to grasp.
- n. The option to alter computer code, preserving its behavior but concealing its structure and intent.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of darkening or bewildering; the state of being darkened.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered
- n. confusion resulting from failure to understand
- n. darkening or obscuring the sight of something
Examples
“The only way to deal with bluster and obfuscation is to keep hammering at the facts and spelling out their implications.”
Entitlement Arithmetic, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Except for a very few reasonably tangible questions, most offered by Democratic Senators, this hearing has been an exercise in obfuscation and outright racist demogogary.”
“Hitler pics on Obama and the true Hitlers of the Homeland, Liebenstrom, livingroom scam to sway the masses in obfuscation/deceptions.”
Source: Joe Wilson racking up the dollars after 'you lie' comment
“Such multiyear obfuscation is egregious even by Wall Street standards.”
“Authenticity over sham and obfuscation is a winner!”
“Obtuse, obfuscation is manipulative and misleading! art in kingwood”
“More obfuscation from the guy who is an expert at misinformation!”
“I was trying to do a piece on the artist/writer/arch-prankster Stewart Home and the issue of identity and got lost in obfuscation, trying to work out what is real from what is not, what is playful fibs, and what is truth.”
Ballardian » Escaping the gaze: A review of John Foxx's Tiny Colour Movies
“Double points for the use of the word obfuscation!”
Lanny Davis: It's Hard To Criticize Obama "Without Being Accused Of Playing Race Card"
“David, I find it ironic that you use the word obfuscation or a vairant 4 times.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘obfuscation’.
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#faveword
Words chosen as favorites for the Twitter hashtag #faveword.
autumnal, grotto, chiaroscuro, sfumato, homunculus, zing, zest, effervescent, bewitch, avuncular, susurrus, Styrofoam and 205 more...
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Favorite Words Ending In 'tion
obfuscation, delineation, ratiocination, proprioception, gesticulation, oscillation, undulation, fasciculation, confabulation, interdiction, juxtaposition, commiseration and 41 more...
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ob-
to; toward; before; opposed to; against; upon; over
Note: can change formobsequious, object, obnoxiousobfuscate, obnoxious, objurgate, omission, occur, offer, oppose, opposition, obtuse, obstruct and 11 more...
lbeaumont Eschew obfuscation! Oct 10, 2010
lil_grammar_nazi My dad used this word in conversation the other day - and I had to look it up.
A good word that most people don't know :) May 5, 2009
bilby Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! Oct 15, 2008
yarb Ha ha!
See midnight. Oct 15, 2008
seanahan from a recent conversation of mine with a bot...
Seanahan: Hi. What's up?
Bot: October.
Seanahan: You are the computer.
Bot: No, you are.
Seanahan: Oh no I'm not!
Bot: Bald obfuscation. I expected better.
Seanahan: I'm leaving.
Bot: Shall I open the door?
Seanahan: It's midnight... And it's so dark...
Bot: If it wasn't dark it probably wouldn't be midnight.
Seanahan: You are not a real person. Oct 15, 2008