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Definition of Obscurity

1. Noun. The quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand.

2. Noun. An obscure and unimportant standing; not well known. "He worked in obscurity for many years"

3. Noun. The state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination.

Definition of Obscurity

1. n. The quality or state of being obscure; darkness; privacy; inconspicuousness; unintelligibleness; uncertainty.

Definition of Obscurity

1. Noun. Darkness; the absence of light ¹

2. Noun. The state of being unknown; a thing that is unknown ¹

3. Noun. The quality of being difficult to understand; a thing that is difficult to understand ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Obscurity

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Obscurity

obscured obscurely obscurement obscurements obscureness obscurenesses obscurer obscurers obscures obscurest

obscurification obscuring obscurist obscurists obscurities obscurity (current term) obscæne obsecrate obsecrated obsecrates

obsecrating obsecration obsecrations obsecratory obsequent obsequie obsequience obsequiences obsequies obsequious

Literary usage of Obscurity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"John Taylor, however, has given the following account of his release : " Oldys, as my father informed me, lived many years in quiet obscurity in the Fleet ..."

2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLEARNESS AND obscurity WITH REGARD TO THE PASSIONS IT is one thing to make an idea clear, ..."

3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1830)
"The Vale of obscurity, The Levant, and other Poems. By Charles Crocker. ... The ' Vale of obscurity' is a poem in fifty-one stanzas, in the measure of ..."

4. English Prose: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers and by Henry Craik (1913)
"THE obscurity OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION That there is a considerable obscurity and abstruseness in Christian religion is easily made evident as well from ..."

5. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1835)
"PROFESSORS OF PLAGIARISM ANO obscurity. Among the most singular characters in literature may be ranked those who do not blush to profess publicly ita most ..."

6. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"... I realized how incomparably great the advantages of obscurity and poverty which I have enjoyed so long (and may still perhaps enjoy). ..."

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