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Obscurity

noun

The quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand. Synonyms: abstruseness, obscureness, reconditeness.

An obscure and unimportant standing; not well known.

The state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination. Synonym: obscureness.

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"Obscurity" Quotes from Famous Books

... mortals, in the ecstasy of passion, recognize in the object of their love the incarnate presence of deity. Love, like music, can raise a "mortal to the skies" and "bring an angel down." In this stanza there is, perhaps, an intentional obscurity in the confusion of ideas, which are "thrown out" for the reader to shape for himself as he ...

— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron

... central depths, filtered into purity by time and travel. The waters are copious, sometimes to overflowing; but they are always limpid and unforced, singing their own quiet tune, not saddening, though sometimes sad, and their darkness not that of obscurity, but of depth, like that ...

— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier

... Christian teachers, for the Chinese were strictly reticent when questioned by Europeans. 'My heathen brother, you have a sister who is a demoniac?' asks the intelligent European. The reply of the heathen brother is best left in the obscurity of a remarkably difficult and copious Oriental language. We are thus obliged to fall back on the reports of Mr. Leng and other native Christian teachers. They are perfectly modest and rational ...

— The Making of Religion • Andrew Lang

... had found Ruth out, in her penurious obscurity; and she was disposed to complain a little, like Nan, sometimes, of "the ills that ...

— Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine • Edwin Waugh

... Nothing then. The obscurity was profound in the bullet. Its cylindro-conical sides had resisted perfectly. There was not a break, a crack, or a dint in them. The admirable projectile was not hurt by the intense deflagration of the powders, instead ...

— The Moon-Voyage • Jules Verne

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