Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The property of being obscure, in any sense of that word.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Obscurity.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obscurity
  • noun ambiguity
  • noun unimportance

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand
  • noun the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination
  • noun the state of being humble and unimportant

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Examples

  • Then it was rain, wind, obscureness of gloom, and lightning.

    CHAPTER XXIX 2010

  • Subdued splits and splutters whispered from out the obscureness, and a gentle grinding could be heard.

    CHAPTER 24 2010

  • Surely you value precision more than obscureness here.

    Sperm donor 150 reads in the paper that his children are looking for him. Ann Althouse 2007

  • The key issue here is to create links between newer content and older content, preventing the latter from becoming obsolete just because of obscureness.

    Reflective Surface - Blogs as information spaces 2003

  • And as for the privateness or obscureness (as it may be in vulgar estimation accounted) of life of contemplative men, it is a theme so common to extol a private life, not taxed with sensuality and sloth, in comparison and to the disadvantage of

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • The dark companion, no longer able to hide itself by its obscureness, was brought out into the light of direct observation by means of its gravitational effects.

    Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Various

  • Then it was rain, wind, obscureness of gloom, and lightning.

    Chapter 29 1914

  • As Buck slid along with the obscureness of a gliding shadow, his nose was jerked suddenly to the side as though a positive force had gripped and pulled it.

    Chapter 7, The Sounding of the Call 1903

  • As Buck slid along with the obscureness of a gliding shadow, his nose was jerked suddenly to the side as though a positive force had gripped and pulled it.

    Chapter 7 1903

  • Then it was rain, wind, obscureness of gloom, and lightning.

    The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896

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