obscureness

Example Sentences

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And while his aesthetic seems like ingratiating wholesome Americana, there’s an avant-garde obscureness underneath it.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2021

Whether a natural obscureness, hiding That region in perpetual cloud, Or our own want of effort, be the bar. ant.

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew

The place so offensive for its cloudiness, is,   —The obscureness of her birth   Cannot eclipse the lustre of her eyes,   Which make her all one light.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. by Cibber, Theophilus

It is 267 the subsequent, satisfactory experience of the name which furnishes our standard for clearness; in other words, the implications of obscureness are of a functional, and not of a static or structural, kind.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

The contents of consciousness are vivid or clear in the center of this field and fade away into vagueness or obscureness in proportion to their approach to the periphery.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.