obscurity meaning
ENWObscurity
- Obscurity may refer to:
- Security through obscurity, a controversial principle in security engineering which attempts to use secrecy to provide security
- Obscurity (band), German melodic metal band
- Obscurity (film), a 2014 drama film
- NounPLobscuritiesSUF-ity
- (literary) Darkness; the absence of light.
- The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land. It rose in places, black and sharp against the velvety indigo, over her dipping bow, though most of the low littoral was wrapped in obscurity.
- The state of being unknown; a thing that is unknown.
- The departure was not unduly prolonged. [ …] Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments [ …] ; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
- The quality of being difficult to understand; a thing that is difficult to understand.
- (literary) Darkness; the absence of light.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Along the way, over the last 17 years, the band’s stature has evolve from guildlike obscurity to best-kept secrecy to a sort of aw-shucks pre-eminence.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of obscurity in English Dictionary
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- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
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Other Vocabulary
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "obscurity" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum.