OBSCURENESS Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

obscureness

noun

Definition of obscureness

as in ambiguity

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Noun

There are opportunities for ambiguity about exactly where something was sourced from.

— Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 22 July 2026
Chan is rarely literal when discussing his work, preferring poetic ambiguity over direct explanation.

— Anthony DeMarco, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of ambiguity

Noun

But such opacity does not erase the commercial logic of releasing the weights.

— Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 23 July 2026
The lack of rights owed to victims in particular has been repeatedly condemned by international commissions and inquests into clergy abuse that have found that the church’s judicial procedures retraumatize victims through their secrecy and opacity.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 July 2026

Definition of opacity

Noun

The murkiness of the injury bled into free agency and Christensen’s Carolina future remains unsettled, despite the team’s unproven depth options on the line, particularly at guard.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 7 July 2026
As Raul grapples with telling the story of Elsa’s life, he’s confronted by the murkiness of borrowing from real people for the purposes of fiction.

— Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 19 May 2026

Definition of murkiness

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Shares jumped over 500%, as investors clamored for a piece of a firm that has risen from obscurity to compete with rivals such as Samsung and Micron at home amid an AI-induced demand boom.

— Yue Wang, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
For more than two decades, its streets and structures were preserved in underwater silence, only emerging from obscurity in the early 2000s, when the waters surrounding it began to recede.

— Kieron Marchese, Architectural Digest, 27 July 2026

Definition of obscurity

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