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
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then it was rain, wind, obscureness of gloom, and lightning.
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Subdued splits and splutters whispered from out the obscureness, and a gentle grinding could be heard.
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Surely you value precision more than obscureness here.
Sperm donor 150 reads in the paper that his children are looking for him.
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The key issue here is to create links between newer content and older content, preventing the latter from becoming obsolete just because of obscureness.
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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
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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.
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Then it was rain, wind, obscureness of gloom, and lightning.
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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.
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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.
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Then it was rain, wind, obscureness of gloom, and lightning.
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