Synonyms for obscurity
əbˈskyʊər ɪ tiob·scu·ri·ty

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1. obscurity

   Synonyms:
   contempt, contumely, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, disrepute, humiliation, ignominy, infamy, oblivion, shame

   Antonyms:
   celebrity, credit, distinction, eminence, fame, glory, honor, laurels, notoriety, renown, reputation, repute

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1. obscureness, obscurity, abstruseness, reconditenessnoun

   the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand

   Synonyms:
   lowliness, profoundness, obscureness, abstruseness, abstrusity, profundity, humbleness, unimportance, reconditeness

   Antonyms:
   pellucidity, limpidity, clarity, lucidity, clearness, lucidness, prominence

2. obscuritynoun

   an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known

   "he worked in obscurity for many years"

   Synonyms:
   abstruseness, reconditeness, obscureness

   Antonyms:
   clearness, clarity, pellucidity, lucidity, prominence, lucidness, limpidity

3. obscurity, obscurenessnoun

   the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination

   Synonyms:
   lowliness, unimportance, abstruseness, reconditeness, obscureness, humbleness

   Antonyms:
   limpidity, lucidness, clearness, prominence, lucidity, clarity, pellucidity

Matched Categories

1. • Incomprehensibility
   • Semidarkness
   • Standing

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1. obscuritynoun

   Synonyms:
   darkness, dimness, gloom, gloominess, shade, obscuration, cloud, obfuscation

2. obscuritynoun

   Synonyms:
   seclusion, retirement, privacy

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1. obscuritynoun

   Synonyms:
   ambiguity, vagueness, privacy, seclusion, retirement, darkness, obfuscation, obscuration

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1. List of paraphrases for "obscurity":

   opacity, darkness, ambiguity, dark, mystery

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1. Nigel Farage:

   We may just finish the whole thing off and (Tony) Blair can disappear off into total obscurity.

2. Alex Stamos:

   You have a relatively small number of people with very large followings who have the ability to find a narrative somewhere, pick it out of obscurity — one tweet, one photo, one video — and harden it into these narratives.

3. Joseph Addison:

   It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

4. Chateaubriand:

   What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.

5. Nigel Farage:

   I think if we had a second referendum on European Union membership, we ’d kill it off for a generation, the percentage that would vote to leave next time would be very much bigger than it was last time round and we may just finish the whole thing off and Tony Blair can disappear off into total obscurity.