OBSCURENESS Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

obscureness

noun

Definition of obscureness

as in ambiguity

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Noun

Katie Ball, a law professor at the University of Idaho, said ambiguity in legal language is common.

— Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 10 Nov. 2026
But Misley’s lawyers disagreed, saying there was ambiguity in Young’s statements.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2026

Definition of ambiguity

Noun

In the wake of tragedy and separation, she is lost, wary of the immensity and opacity of her desire; anger crouches inside her, too, a fact that her divorce made mercilessly clear to her.

— Jamie Hood, New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2026
There’s a whole methodology for opacity that people in medicine have worked out.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of opacity

Noun

From the start, Newsom understood the moral murkiness of his maneuver and included a provision returning map-drawing to the independent commission after the 2030 census.

— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
Because of the legal murkiness, Pratte urges people to talk to an attorney before foregoing registration.

— Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of murkiness

Noun

Very faint variable stars changing their brightness and then fading back into obscurity, for example, might also explain either or both points.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2026
Before 1930, the trail thrived with free campgrounds, travel bureaus, and publications, but the advent of the route numbering system, created by the state of Wisconsin in 1918, caused named roads to fade into obscurity.

— Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of obscurity

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