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obscurity

Main Entry:
obscurity [uhb-skyoor-i-tee]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: vagueness
Synonyms: ambiguity, darkness, dimness, fuzziness, indistinctness, obscureness, uncertainty
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Obscurity.
Category: 2. Conventional means; language generally; various qualities of style
Synonyms:
-nouns
obscurity (unintelligibility); involution; hard words; ambiguity; unintelligibleness; vagueness, inexactness [more]; what d'ye call 'em (neologism) [more]; darkness of meaning.
-adjectives
obscure; crabbed, involved, confused.
Antonyms: perspicuity
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Main Entry: ambiguity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: uncertainty of meaning
Synonyms: anagram, double meaning, double-entendre, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, enigma, equivocacy, equivocality, equivocation, incertitude, inconclusiveness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, obscurity, polysemousness, polysemy, puzzle, tergiversation, uncertainty, unclearness, vagueness
Antonyms: certainty, clarity, clearness, definiteness, explicitness, lucidity
Main Entry: cloud
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mass of water particles in air
Synonyms: billow, brume, darkness, dimness, film, fog, fogginess, frost, gloom, haze, haziness, mare's tail, mist, murk, nebula, nebulosity, obscurity, ol' buttermilk sky, overcast, pea soup, pother, puff, rack, scud, sheep, smog, smoke, smother, steam, thunderhead, vapor, veil, woolpack
Main Entry: dark
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: place, time without light
Synonyms: caliginosity, darkness, dead of night, dimness, dusk, duskiness, evening, gloom, midnight, murk, murkiness, night, nightfall, nighttime, obscurity, opacity, semidarkness, shade, shadows, twilight, witching hour
Antonyms: brightness, day, daylight, daytime, illumination, light, lightness, morning
Main Entry: darkness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: place, time that is unlit
Synonyms: Cimmerian shade, black, blackness, blackout, brownout, calignosity, cloudiness, crepuscule, dark, dimness, dusk, duskiness, eclipse, gloom, lightlessness, murk, murkiness, nightfall, obscurity, pitch darkness, shade, shadiness, shadows, smokiness, tenebrosity, twilight
Antonyms: brightness, day, daylight, daytime, illumination, light, lightness, morning
Main Entry: fog
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: heavy mist that reduces visibility
Synonyms: London fog, brume, cloud, effluvium, film, gloom, grease, ground clouds, haze, miasma, murk, murkiness, nebula, obscurity, pea soup, smaze, smog, smoke, smother, soup, steam, vapor, visibility zero-zero, wisp
Notes: haze is atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility while fog is droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground causing reduced visibility
Antonyms: clearness
Main Entry: fog
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mental unclarity
Synonyms: befuddlement, blindness, confusion, daze, haze, maze, mist, muddledness, muddlement, obscurity, perplexity, stupor, trance, vagueness
Notes: haze is atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility while fog is droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground causing reduced visibility
Antonyms: cognizance, understanding
Main Entry: gloom
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: darkness, blackness
Synonyms: bleakness, cloud, cloudiness, dimness, dullness, dusk, duskiness, gloominess, murk, murkiness, obscurity, shade, shadow, twilight
Antonyms: brightness, light, sunniness
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