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obscurity
Part of speech: NounDimness or ind stinctness of a place or object; lack of clearness of thought or expression; state or fact of being unknown.
Usage examples "obscurity":- Then the moonlight, which might have been useful now, died away, and the plain faded into obscurity. - "Prescott of Saskatchewan", Harold Bindloss.
- I am but little acquainted with my fellow- creatures, as having always inhabited these mountains; but I cannot conceive that any other man, who had been witness to your distress, would have refused to attempt your rescue; and as to all the rest, the obscurity of the night, and peculiarity of the situation, rendered it a work of little difficulty or danger. - "The History of Sandford and Merton", Thomas Day.
- She did not look at me until, with another lurch, we had swung about again, and all but the road in front of us was drawn back swiftly into obscurity. - "The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story", Various.