obscureness

noun

Definition of obscurenessnext
as in ambiguity

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  1. ambiguity
  2. opacity
  3. murkiness
  4. obscurity
Noun
  • Nevertheless, across multiple administrations, the United States retained deliberate ambiguity on this front.
    — Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Leaders Must Establish Clarity Around AI's Boundaries A significant driver of AI-induced burnout is ambiguity.
    — Khadim Batti, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of ambiguity
Noun
  • Know More The opacity extends to the deportations themselves.
    — Adrian Elimian, semafor.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • News of his death, and its circumstances, has been cloaked in journalistic language that implies suicide, emulating the opacity of suicide itself.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of opacity
Noun
  • Because of the legal murkiness, Pratte urges people to talk to an attorney before foregoing registration.
    — Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 17 Aug. 2026
  • That’s because dishwashers are equipped with something called a turbidity sensor that basically senses the murkiness of the water and adjusts the wash cycle accordingly.
    — Emily Farris, Bon Appetit Magazine, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of murkiness
Noun
  • The Wiener Werkstätte’s undue obscurity may have something to do with not only those epistolary expressions of skepticism by the founding fathers of the Frankfurt School, but also Hoffmann’s latter-day Nazism, which in this show goes unmentioned.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Dumped in theaters by Tianjin Yamazaki Film on August 5, the film had zero promotion beyond a single poster design, and initially seemed set to fade quietly into obscurity.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of obscurity
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“Obscureness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obscureness. Accessed 27 Aug. 2026.

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