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Another word for obscurity

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obscurity

n.

vagueness, dimness, fuzziness; see uncertainty 1, 2, 3.

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Another word for obscurity

noun

Absence or deficiency of light:
dark, darkness, dimness, duskiness, murkiness, obscureness. See light
The quality or state of being obscure:
anonymity, namelessness. See knowledge
The quality or state of being ambiguous:
ambiguity, ambiguousness, cloudiness, equivocalness, indefiniteness, nebulousness, obscureness, uncertainty, unclearness, vagueness. See clear

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At last, worn out by age, he accepted an amnesty and returned to the city of Mexico, where he died in obscurity on the 10th of June 1876.
I do not suppose that I have attained to obscurity, but I should be proud if no more fatal fault were found with my pages on this score than was found with the Walden ice.
The contrast between the obscurity of such a man and the fame enjoyed by the fluent young doctors roused Bacon's indignation.
The visions hardly veil the thought, and the mode of expression is usually simple, except in the Messianic passages, where the tortuousness and obscurity are perhaps intentional.
He was amnestied with other exiles in 1874, and died in obscurity in 1876.

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