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obscurity

/əbˈskjʊərɪti

noun (plural obscurities) [mass noun]

1The state of being unknown, inconspicuous, or unimportant: he is too good a player to slide into obscurity...

Whether or not it would break and send us back into complete obscurity it was unknown at the time - but we knew that this, this night was the beginning of something special.
Talking of slides into obscurity, William reports that the Socialist Workers Party, now admit to having little more than 3,000 members.
There is a way out - retirement and self-imposed obscurity.

Synonyms

insignificance, inconspicuousness, unimportance, anonymity, lack of fame/renown/honour/recognition, non-recognition, ingloriousness, limbo, twilight, oblivion

1.1The quality of being difficult to understand: poems of impenetrable obscurity...

These large allegorical works, even when seen in person, present difficulties of access due to two sorts of obscurity.
Given the obscurity and perceived difficulty of his oeuvre, he is literature's white whale, Rosebud, and Bigfoot combined.
These are the lost poems of the lost modernist, David Jones, a man whose allusive obscurity won him fans like Eliot and Auden but robbed him of his place in college curricula.

Synonyms

incomprehensibility, impenetrability, unintelligibility, obscureness, complexity, intricacy, opacity, opaqueness, unclearness;

abstruseness, reconditeness, arcaneness, deepness, esotericism

1.2 [count noun] A thing that is unclear or difficult to understand: the obscurities in his poems and plays...

He explained that Turner's ‘own special gift was that of expressing mystery and the obscurities rather than the definition of form’.
In the end, however, one may wonder how far the various difficulties and obscurities surrounding what he writes on this score really impinge upon his fundamental aims.
At the front of the line were the all-nighters, hard-core sci-fi fans, amateur Civil War historians, and chasers of obscurities, rumored to have been there since before midnight.

Synonyms

enigma, puzzle, mystery, difficulty, problem, complication, intricacy, ambiguity;

crux

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French obscurite, from Latin obscuritas, from obscurus 'dark'.

单词	obscurity
释义	obscurity /əbˈskjʊərɪti / noun (plural obscurities) [mass noun] 1The state of being unknown, inconspicuous, or unimportant: he is too good a player to slide into obscurity... Whether or not it would break and send us back into complete obscurity it was unknown at the time - but we knew that this, this night was the beginning of something special. Talking of slides into obscurity, William reports that the Socialist Workers Party, now admit to having little more than 3,000 members. There is a way out - retirement and self-imposed obscurity. Synonyms insignificance, inconspicuousness, unimportance, anonymity, lack of fame/renown/honour/recognition, non-recognition, ingloriousness, limbo, twilight, oblivion 1.1The quality of being difficult to understand: poems of impenetrable obscurity... These large allegorical works, even when seen in person, present difficulties of access due to two sorts of obscurity. Given the obscurity and perceived difficulty of his oeuvre, he is literature's white whale, Rosebud, and Bigfoot combined. These are the lost poems of the lost modernist, David Jones, a man whose allusive obscurity won him fans like Eliot and Auden but robbed him of his place in college curricula. Synonyms incomprehensibility, impenetrability, unintelligibility, obscureness, complexity, intricacy, opacity, opaqueness, unclearness; abstruseness, reconditeness, arcaneness, deepness, esotericism 1.2 [count noun] A thing that is unclear or difficult to understand: the obscurities in his poems and plays... He explained that Turner's ‘own special gift was that of expressing mystery and the obscurities rather than the definition of form’. In the end, however, one may wonder how far the various difficulties and obscurities surrounding what he writes on this score really impinge upon his fundamental aims. At the front of the line were the all-nighters, hard-core sci-fi fans, amateur Civil War historians, and chasers of obscurities, rumored to have been there since before midnight. Synonyms enigma, puzzle, mystery, difficulty, problem, complication, intricacy, ambiguity; crux Origin Late Middle English: from Old French obscurite, from Latin obscuritas, from obscurus 'dark'. Rhymes biosecurity, cybersecurity, futurity, immaturity, impurity, maturity, purity, security, surety
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