obscurity
About 2.13 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun Darkness; the absence of light.
- noun The state of being unknown; a thing that is unknown.
She was plucked from obscurity to star in a Broadway musical.
- noun The quality of being difficult to understand; a thing that is difficult to understand.
Similar words
obscureness abstruseness reconditeness darkness opaqueness shade opacity gloom confusion mystique
Often followed by
of and in to which is that as or
Word family
obscurities
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