'obscurity' definitions:
Definition of 'obscurity'
(from WordNet)
noun
The quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand [syn: obscureness, obscurity, abstruseness, reconditeness] [ant: clarity, clearness, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity]
noun
An obscure and unimportant standing; not well known; "he worked in obscurity for many years" [ant: prominence]
noun
The state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination [syn: obscurity, obscureness]
Synonyms of 'obscurity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a nobody,
- a nothing,
- abstruseness,
- adiaphanousness,
- ambiguousness,
- amorphia,
- amorphism,
- amorphousness,
- anarchy,
- anonymity,
- arcanum,
- blackness,
- bleariness,
- blobbiness,
- blur,
- blurriness,
- broadness,
- chaos,
- cipher,
- cloudiness,
- common man,
- complexity,
- confusion,
- dark,
- darkness,
- darkness visible,
- dead of night,
- defocus,
- dimness,
- disorder,
- dummy,
- dusk,
- duskiness,
- Egyptian darkness,
- entropy,
- Erebus,
- esoterica,
- faintness,
- feebleness,
- figurehead,
- filminess,
- fog,
- fogginess,
- formlessness,
- fuzziness,
- generality,
- gloom,
- half-visibility,
- haze,
- haziness,
- ill-definedness,
- imperviousness to light,
- imprecision,
- inaccuracy,
- inchoateness,
- incoherence,
- indecisiveness,
- indefinableness,
- indefiniteness,
- indeterminateness,
- indistinctness,
- indistinguishability,
- inexactness,
- ingloriousness,
- insignificance,
- insignificancy,
- intense darkness,
- intransparency,
- intricacy,
- jackstraw,
- laxity,
- lightlessness,
- lightweight,
- limbo,
- little fellow,
- little guy,
- looseness,
- low profile,
- man of straw,
- mediocrity,
- messiness,
- mist,
- mistiness,
- moonlessness,
- mumbo jumbo,
- murk,
- murkiness,
- mystery,
- mystification,
- namelessness,
- nebbish,
- nebulousness,
- night,
- nobody one knows,
- nonentity,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- obscuration,
- obscure,
- obscure darkness,
- opacity,
- opaque,
- opaqueness,
- orderlessness,
- paleness,
- perplexity,
- pip-squeak,
- pitch-darkness,
- pitchy darkness,
- punk,
- roil,
- roiledness,
- runt,
- scrub,
- secret,
- semivisibility,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shadowiness,
- shapelessness,
- shrimp,
- small fry,
- small potato,
- small potatoes,
- soft focus,
- squirt,
- squit,
- starlessness,
- sunlessness,
- swarthiness,
- sweepingness,
- tenebrosity,
- tenebrousness,
- the palpable obscure,
- total darkness,
- turbidity,
- turbidness,
- uncertainty,
- unclarity,
- unclearness,
- unimportance,
- unintelligibility,
- unplainness,
- vague appearance,
- vagueness,
- velvet darkness,
- weakness,
- whiffet,
- whippersnapper