FACELESSNESS Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

facelessness

noun

Definition of facelessness

as in obscurity

the quality or state of being mostly or completely unknown the facelessness of those early participants in the American civil rights movement

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Recent Examples of facelessness Many imaginative fans saw Slender Man’s facelessness as a blank canvas in which to reimagine him in any number of ways, Chess added. — Amanda Musa, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025

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Noun

Tavares broke in before the age of social media, and in the relative obscurity of the Long Island market.

— Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Her enormous catalog is full of fascinating obscurities, like her fuzz bass experiment on Elvis Presley’s title song for his 1970 film Change of Habit.

— Al Shipley, SPIN, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of obscurity

Noun

None of this happened by accident, and the proof is in the long list of former Dell competitors from its founding era, who have faded into oblivion.

— Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026
Her pain becomes something to be shared with a caring audience, rather than privately medicated into oblivion.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of oblivion

Noun

One of the people, who was granted anonymity because the matter was private, suggested a new sponsor could replace the league-wide Apple patch included on all jerseys.

— Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 18 Sep. 2026
Seth Wenig After a lifetime toiling away in anonymity, Macken hopes to display the model elsewhere when the museum exhibit ends on Columbus Day.

— CBS News, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026

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