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Definition of Obscurity
Obscurity

The quality or state of being obscure; darkness; privacy; inconspicuousness; unintelligibleness; uncertainty.

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Being, Darkness, Obscure, Of, Or, Privacy, Quality, State, The, Uncertainty


Obscurity Quotations

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
W. H. Auden

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Aldous Huxley

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
Thomas Merton

Obscurity Translations

obscurity in German is Unklarheiten, Dunkelheit
obscurity in Latin is silentium
obscurity in Spanish is oscuridad
obscurity in Swedish is dunkelhet


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