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obscurity

[ uhb-skyoor-i-tee ]

noun

plural obscurities.
  1. the state or quality of being obscure.
  2. the condition of being unknown:

    He lived in obscurity for years before winning acclaim.

  3. uncertainty of meaning or expression; ambiguity.
  4. an unknown or unimportant person or thing.
  5. darkness; dimness; indistinctness.


obscurity

/ əbˈskjʊərɪtɪ /

noun

  1. the state or quality of being obscure
  2. an obscure person or thing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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  • nonob·scuri·ty noun plural nonobscurities
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Word History and Origins

Origin of obscurity1

1470–80; late Middle English < Middle French obscurite < Latin obscūritās, equivalent to obscūr ( us ) obscure + -itās -ity
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Example Sentences

After emerging from obscurity aged 16 to reach the World Championship final, the life of Luke Littler and the sport he loves has been transformed.

From BBC

“It also gave us a chance to share the origins of the sculpture and its sculptress — Nina Saemundsson — prior to its descent into obscurity.”

When Johnson rose from relative obscurity to the Speaker position, one of the few pieces of information that journalists dug up was that he had been in a documentary about "purity balls" in 2015.

From Salon

When Gaitonde died in 2001 at the age of 77, his death went widely unreported as the artist lived his last years in obscurity.

From BBC

The freeway references, the voices, the obscurity of the “problems” and the staff breaking up because they knew all of this even while playing it out.

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