OBSCURITY Synonyms

• an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context

• unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning

• the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds

• gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover

• the quality of being cloudy

• absence of light or illumination

• an unilluminated area

• absence of moral or spiritual values

• an unenlightened state

• having a dark or somber color

• a swarthy complexion

• something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained

• a difficult problem

• a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

• intentionally vague or ambiguous

• falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language

• vagueness attributable to being not clearly defined

• cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor

• the quality of being impenetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.)

• incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understand

• the quality of being incomprehensible

• the quality of being impossible to investigate

• an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance

• the quality of being cloudy

• confusion resulting from failure to understand

• something designed to mystify or bewilder

• the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered

• the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation

• incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning

• the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light

• trouble or confusion resulting from complexity

• the trait of keeping things secret

• the condition of being concealed or hidden

• being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance

• the state of being unsure of something

• nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible

• incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible

• unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not coherent in meaning

• indistinctness of shape or character