obfuscationn.

Brit.

/ˌɒbfʌˈskeɪʃn/,

/ˌɒbfəˈskeɪʃn/, U.S.

/ˌɑbfəˈskeɪʃ(ə)n/

Forms: late Middle English obfuscacioun, 1500s obfustacion (transmission error), 1600s– obfuscation.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin obfuscation-, obfuscatio.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin obfuscation-, obfuscatio action of obscuring (Vulgate) < obfuscat- , past participial stem of obfuscare obfuscate v. + -io -ion suffix¹. Compare Middle French obfuscacion (14th cent.), obfuscation (early 15th cent.), Italian †obfuscatione (1309), Spanish †obfuscasion (1493). Compare offuscation n.

1. The action of obfuscating something or someone; the condition of being obfuscated.

†a. Darkening or dimming of colour, light, or the sight; an instance of this. Cf. obfuscate v. 2a. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [noun] > making or becoming dark > darkened condition

obfuscation?a1425

blackout1934

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [noun] > dimness or poor vision

dimnessc825

misteOE

mistinessa1382

scotomiaa1400

scotomya1400

obfuscation?a1425

scotoma1543

purblindness1552

sand-blindness1552

caligation1615

caliginousness1620

weak-sightedness1632

cecutiency1646

caliginosity1657

dimsightedness1662

dim1726

caligo1801

asthenopia1875

greying out?1942

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > disorders of cornea

whitea1325

maculaa1400

pannusa1400

pannicle1543

onyx1706

carcinoma1722

nubecula1728

paralampsis1749

obfuscation1794

corneitis1854

photophthalmia1907

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 81^v When medicynez helpeþ in vlcerez..it bihoueþ for to adden desiccatyue... When forsoþ þai adde in to coldenez & obfuscacioun [L. obfuscationem], i. derknez or blacnez, þan minush yn infrigidatyuez with calefactiuez.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 214 It [sc. the bite of the serpent Pelias] bringeth obfuscation or dimnesse to the eyes.

1794 E. Darwin Zoonomia I. 23 In cateracts and obfuscations of the cornea.

1881 E. W. Gosse in Fortn. Rev. June 692 Mr. W...has in this instance [in a portrait] given the poet a sort of obfuscation which is not entirely satisfactory.

b. Concealment or obscuration of a concept, idea, expression, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > [noun] > making obscure

obfuscation1536

obscurement1694

1536 T. Cromwell Let. 8 June in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) II. 14 Thextirpacion abolicion and extinguishment of suche abuses errours and enormyties, as haue been long violently maynteyned to the obfustacion of goddes holy and indeficible trouth.

1656 H. Jeanes Mixture Scholasticall Divinity 61 This morall corruption and obfuscation of the soules immortality by worldly mindednesse.

1660 E. Waterhouse Disc. Arms & Armory 77 Which variation causing much obfuscation in History.

1848 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 370 Of these [writers], some of the Persian religious poets, and, above all, the ‘later Platonists’, may serve as examples. These have a title by prescription to every imaginable form of obfuscation.

1896 L. M. Heath Platform Peals 182 He told us how to range our facts In proper collocation To analyze and synthesize And keep from obfuscation.

1938 D. Katz & R. L. Schanck Social Psychol. xix. 660 If labor leadership does anything which contributes to the obfuscation of the economic interests of the middle class, it aids in sinking its own ally.

1976 Leader-Post (Regina, Sask.) 24 June 33/1 The great art of competitive obfuscation got another leg up in Edmonton last week in spirited controversy over the precise definition of such expressions as ‘charity’ and ‘charitable purposes’.

1999 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Feb. 174/3 No fib, obfuscation, intimidation, or cockamamy definition of ‘sexual relationship’ would allow the president to wiggle out of facing himself.

c. Confusion of the mind, understanding, etc.; stupefaction, bewilderment. Cf. obfuscate v. 2b. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > [noun]

mingingOE

riddleOE

cumbermentc1300

willa1325

encumbrancec1330

were1338

perplexitya1393

discomfiturea1425

cumbrancec1460

confuse1483

proplexity1487

perplexion?c1500

amazedness?1520

amazement1553

subversion1558

amaze?1560

perplexednessa1586

confusedness1587

puzzle1599

confusion1600

mizmaze1604

discomfita1616

embarras1627

obfuscation1628

mystery1629

confoundedness1641

puzzledness1662

confuseness1710

puzzlement1731

puzzledom1748

embarrassment1751

puzzleation1767

bepuzzlement1806

conjecture1815

mystification1817

bewilderment1819

perplexment1826

fuddle1827

wilderment1830

discomforture1832

head-scratching1832

baffle1843

posement1850

muddlement1857

turbidity1868

fogging1878

bemuddlement1884

harl1889

befuddlement1905

turbidness1906

wuzziness1942

perplexability1999

1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) i. iii. ii. iv. 193 Care, sorrow, & anxiety, obfuscation of spirits.

1833 New-Eng. Mag. Aug. 135 My wits were in a complete state of obfuscation, and I stood at the open door for half a minute, without moving hand, or foot, or eye.

1837 E. Howard Old Commodore I. 31 That obfuscation..with which he was always afflicted on shore.

1874 Galaxy Aug. 247/1 He had evidently been drinking freely, and I perceived that even the prophetic vision was liable to obfuscation.

1906 H. G. Wells In Days of Comet ii. i. 186 The alteration in one's bodily sensations, instead of producing the mental obfuscation, the loss of identity that was a common mental trouble under former conditions, gave simply a new detachment.

2. Something that darkens or obscures a situation, facts, etc.; an instance of darkening or obscuration.

ΚΠ

1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness x. xii. 526 Quite rid of all pretended Traditions and whatever obfuscations and entanglements of humane Invention.

1881 J. Owen Evenings with Skeptics II. viii. 142 Too often theologians, like..cuttle-fish, escape pursuit by enveloping themselves in their self-raised obfuscations.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 19 May 2/1 Obfuscations that move smokily across the face of truth.

1932 L. B. Boudin Govt. by Judiciary I. xvii. 434 He often could not see the real issues behind the obfuscations engendered by the legal tomes which he had occasion to consult.

1968 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 99 1109/1 We can discount the obfuscations produced by countertransference.

1997 Scotsman (Electronic ed.) 7 Mar. We are almost as bored with Labour's constant criticisms as we are with the Government's familiar excuses and obfuscations.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	obfuscation
释义	obfuscationn. Brit. /ˌɒbfʌˈskeɪʃn/, /ˌɒbfəˈskeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌɑbfəˈskeɪʃ(ə)n/ Forms: late Middle English obfuscacioun, 1500s obfustacion (transmission error), 1600s– obfuscation. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin obfuscation-, obfuscatio. Etymology: < post-classical Latin obfuscation-, obfuscatio action of obscuring (Vulgate) < obfuscat- , past participial stem of obfuscare obfuscate v. + -io -ion suffix¹. Compare Middle French obfuscacion (14th cent.), obfuscation (early 15th cent.), Italian †obfuscatione (1309), Spanish †obfuscasion (1493). Compare offuscation n. 1. The action of obfuscating something or someone; the condition of being obfuscated. †a. Darkening or dimming of colour, light, or the sight; an instance of this. Cf. obfuscate v. 2a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [noun] > making or becoming dark > darkened condition obfuscation?a1425 blackout1934 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [noun] > dimness or poor vision dimnessc825 misteOE mistinessa1382 scotomiaa1400 scotomya1400 obfuscation?a1425 scotoma1543 purblindness1552 sand-blindness1552 caligation1615 caliginousness1620 weak-sightedness1632 cecutiency1646 caliginosity1657 dimsightedness1662 dim1726 caligo1801 asthenopia1875 greying out?1942 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > disorders of cornea whitea1325 maculaa1400 pannusa1400 pannicle1543 onyx1706 carcinoma1722 nubecula1728 paralampsis1749 obfuscation1794 corneitis1854 photophthalmia1907 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 81^v When medicynez helpeþ in vlcerez..it bihoueþ for to adden desiccatyue... When forsoþ þai adde in to coldenez & obfuscacioun [L. obfuscationem], i. derknez or blacnez, þan minush yn infrigidatyuez with calefactiuez. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 214 It [sc. the bite of the serpent Pelias] bringeth obfuscation or dimnesse to the eyes. 1794 E. Darwin Zoonomia I. 23 In cateracts and obfuscations of the cornea. 1881 E. W. Gosse in Fortn. Rev. June 692 Mr. W...has in this instance [in a portrait] given the poet a sort of obfuscation which is not entirely satisfactory. b. Concealment or obscuration of a concept, idea, expression, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > [noun] > making obscure obfuscation1536 obscurement1694 1536 T. Cromwell Let. 8 June in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) II. 14 Thextirpacion abolicion and extinguishment of suche abuses errours and enormyties, as haue been long violently maynteyned to the obfustacion of goddes holy and indeficible trouth. 1656 H. Jeanes Mixture Scholasticall Divinity 61 This morall corruption and obfuscation of the soules immortality by worldly mindednesse. 1660 E. Waterhouse Disc. Arms & Armory 77 Which variation causing much obfuscation in History. 1848 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 370 Of these [writers], some of the Persian religious poets, and, above all, the ‘later Platonists’, may serve as examples. These have a title by prescription to every imaginable form of obfuscation. 1896 L. M. Heath Platform Peals 182 He told us how to range our facts In proper collocation To analyze and synthesize And keep from obfuscation. 1938 D. Katz & R. L. Schanck Social Psychol. xix. 660 If labor leadership does anything which contributes to the obfuscation of the economic interests of the middle class, it aids in sinking its own ally. 1976 Leader-Post (Regina, Sask.) 24 June 33/1 The great art of competitive obfuscation got another leg up in Edmonton last week in spirited controversy over the precise definition of such expressions as ‘charity’ and ‘charitable purposes’. 1999 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Feb. 174/3 No fib, obfuscation, intimidation, or cockamamy definition of ‘sexual relationship’ would allow the president to wiggle out of facing himself. c. Confusion of the mind, understanding, etc.; stupefaction, bewilderment. Cf. obfuscate v. 2b. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > [noun] mingingOE riddleOE cumbermentc1300 willa1325 encumbrancec1330 were1338 perplexitya1393 discomfiturea1425 cumbrancec1460 confuse1483 proplexity1487 perplexion?c1500 amazedness?1520 amazement1553 subversion1558 amaze?1560 perplexednessa1586 confusedness1587 puzzle1599 confusion1600 mizmaze1604 discomfita1616 embarras1627 obfuscation1628 mystery1629 confoundedness1641 puzzledness1662 confuseness1710 puzzlement1731 puzzledom1748 embarrassment1751 puzzleation1767 bepuzzlement1806 conjecture1815 mystification1817 bewilderment1819 perplexment1826 fuddle1827 wilderment1830 discomforture1832 head-scratching1832 baffle1843 posement1850 muddlement1857 turbidity1868 fogging1878 bemuddlement1884 harl1889 befuddlement1905 turbidness1906 wuzziness1942 perplexability1999 1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) i. iii. ii. iv. 193 Care, sorrow, & anxiety, obfuscation of spirits. 1833 New-Eng. Mag. Aug. 135 My wits were in a complete state of obfuscation, and I stood at the open door for half a minute, without moving hand, or foot, or eye. 1837 E. Howard Old Commodore I. 31 That obfuscation..with which he was always afflicted on shore. 1874 Galaxy Aug. 247/1 He had evidently been drinking freely, and I perceived that even the prophetic vision was liable to obfuscation. 1906 H. G. Wells In Days of Comet ii. i. 186 The alteration in one's bodily sensations, instead of producing the mental obfuscation, the loss of identity that was a common mental trouble under former conditions, gave simply a new detachment. 2. Something that darkens or obscures a situation, facts, etc.; an instance of darkening or obscuration. ΚΠ 1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness x. xii. 526 Quite rid of all pretended Traditions and whatever obfuscations and entanglements of humane Invention. 1881 J. Owen Evenings with Skeptics II. viii. 142 Too often theologians, like..cuttle-fish, escape pursuit by enveloping themselves in their self-raised obfuscations. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 19 May 2/1 Obfuscations that move smokily across the face of truth. 1932 L. B. Boudin Govt. by Judiciary I. xvii. 434 He often could not see the real issues behind the obfuscations engendered by the legal tomes which he had occasion to consult. 1968 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 99 1109/1 We can discount the obfuscations produced by countertransference. 1997 Scotsman (Electronic ed.) 7 Mar. We are almost as bored with Labour's constant criticisms as we are with the Government's familiar excuses and obfuscations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1425
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