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

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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  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

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. obscuritynoun

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

  2. obscuritynoun

    Synonyms:
    seclusion, retirement, privacy

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. obscuritynoun

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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "obscurity":

    opacity, darkness, ambiguity, dark, mystery

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#1640dark
#3778mystery
#6663darkness
#8184shame
#12132humiliation
#17209contempt
#20136ambiguity
#21253oblivion
#25916opacity
#26615disgrace
#36428obscurity
#36900discredit
#57568infamy
#59800dishonor
#89194disrepute
#115920profundity
#135732ignominy
#174090humbleness
#208725lowliness
#272811unimportance
#314700contumely

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.


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