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Meanings of obscurity in English
The quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand.
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Examples for "obscureness"
Examples for "obscureness"
1
Subdued splits and splutters whispered from out the obscureness, and a gentle grinding could be heard.
2
The coarse jest, the impure expression, the subtle inuendo,-poisoningthe more surely and deeply, by its very obscureness,-whereare these tolerated?
3
Something quick and subtle ran through my veins; something that for a few moments seemed to burn away the obscureness which blurs our thought.
4
And some time after that young Bansted Downs moved into the room of the Master Genius to learn the higher attributes of genius-eccentricity and obscureness.
1
Readily; I have solved others of an abstruseness ten thousand times greater.
2
The same person cannot be expected to excel in the abstruseness of metaphysical science, and in the ravishing effusions of poetical genius.
3
They have none of the abstruseness of idea or obscurity of expression which mark the written communications of a solitary mind with itself.
4
But he rendered his style obscure by excessive affectation and abstruseness, so that he was thought to speak better extempore, than in a premeditated discourse.
Usage of obscurity in English
1
For animals that need never surface, obscurity can be even more tantalizing.
2
As a foreign photographer, I was able to work in relative obscurity.
3
He mistakes obscurity for profundity; it is the darkness before the creation.
4
He was in all his glory- Iinthe depth of my obscurity.
5
In the first case, they are useless repetitions, introducing labor and obscurity.
6
He whisked off in the obscurity and quickly reached the river side.
7
In this place nothing-theabsolute obscurity made me blind in every sense.
8
The origin of the Median nation is wrapt in a profound obscurity.
9
The three worst things in the world are sickness, poverty and obscurity.
10
The history of other occurrences and innovations is buried in profound obscurity.
11
But far more commissions end in obscurity, their findings ignored by lawmakers.
12
Surajah Dowlah fled in disguise, and disappeared from history in complete obscurity.
13
Unable to pursue his work, he sank into an understandably dispirited obscurity.
14
He gazed up into the obscurity at the top of the stairs.
15
Poor Rothsay himself passed out upon the sidewalk, unrecognized in the obscurity.
16
The early history of many forms of art is wrapped in obscurity.
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Obscurity across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common