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anonymity
noun as in obscurity
Strong matches
Weak match
Example Sentences
These people, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on behalf of these officials.
The agenda includes voter mobilization and efforts to elect down-ballot Democrats in November, according to one of the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to confirm a meeting that is not public.
This time, the group is taking a different approach with brute-force and password-spraying attacks, a shift in tactics that allows for both larger-scale attacks and greater anonymity for the attackers.
Each question answered would have eroded the anonymity the victim had asked for, she said.
They did not come to a consensus, a person with knowledge of the meeting told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because details weren’t revealed publicly.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to harm future access to those embattled communities.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the security preparations publicly.
This problem of anonymity is one of the prime reasons the niqab was banned in France and some other European countries.
And activists have used the semi-anonymity of social media to lash out against the government.
Both sources requested anonymity because they were discussing classified information.
I am not at liberty to remove the veil of anonymity, even as regards social position.
Posterity has continued to preserve the anonymity of the author, perhaps more jealously than he would have wished.
Anonymity is now an artifice to acquire celebrity, as a black veil is worn to make a pair of bright eyes more conspicuous.
In the refuge of his anonymity, Fitzgerald derived an innocent gratification from the curiosity that was aroused on all sides.
Failing that, why should we not deal with these questions through the anonymity of a gramophone?
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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