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1. The quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand
   - obscureness, abstruseness, reconditeness
    
2. An obscure and unimportant standing; not well known
   "he worked in obscurity for many years"
    
3. The state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination
   - obscureness

Derived forms: obscurities

See also: obscure

Type of: incomprehensibility, semidarkness, standing

Antonym: clarity, prominence

Encyclopedia: Obscurity