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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How to use obscurity in a sentence?

1. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

   Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

2. Napoleon:

   Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Ohio Gov. John Kasich:

   Be for me, i've run an unwaveringly positive campaign since I got in this, and sometimes I've operated in total obscurity. It's OK -- we're rising now.