obscurity
obscurity is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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. See Darkness.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- ambiguity
- call
- cloud
- cloudiness
- cloudy
- crabbed
- darkness
- dim
- dirty
- film
- fog
- foggy
- fuliginous
- fumid
- hard
- haze
- haziness
- hazy
- impervious
- inexactness
- instrument
- involution
- involved
- light
- meaning
- measure
- misty
- muddiness
- muddy
- muggy
- murky
- neologism
- nephelometer
- nubiferous
- obfuscate
- obscure
- obstruct
- offuscate
- opacity
- opacous
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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