Definition of Obscurity

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Definition of Obscurity
	Obscurity The quality or state of being obscure; darkness; privacy; inconspicuousness; unintelligibleness; uncertainty. Related Definitions: Being, Darkness, Obscure, Of, Or, Privacy, Quality, State, The, Uncertainty

Obscurity Quotations

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.
Jim Carrey

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

Obscurity is the realm of error.
Luc de Clapier

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
Thomas Hardy

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
Emily Bronte

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Thomas Moore

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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