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obscurant
  1. One who acts to confound or obfuscate; an obscurantist.
  2. A person who seeks to prevent or hinder enquiry and the advancement of knowledge or wisdom; an agent of endarkenment.
  3. An opposer of lucidity and transparency in the political and intellectual spheres.
  4. Synonyms:
obscurity
  1. (literary) Darkness; the absence of light.
  2. The state of being unknown; a thing that is unknown.
  3. The quality of being difficult to understand; a thing that is difficult to understand.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Plato has also greatly increased the obscurity of his writings, by frequently mixing the ideas and language of mathematics with those of metaphysics.”
      “Even where there may be obscurity in his words, it is promptly made clear by the expressive diagrams with which the book abounds, conveying his meaning in a way that only a fool could mistake.”
      “The Office of Strategic Influence went from obscurity to infamy to oblivion during a spin cycle that lasted just seven days in late February.”
obscuration
  1. the state of being obscured
  2. a unit of measurement used in particular for smoke detectors which respond to absorption of light by smoke, in percent absorption per unit length, e.g. % obs/ft, % obs/m.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “As the obscuration of the Sun increases the sky darkens, although it never gets as black as dead of night.”
      “The maximum obscuration of the sun takes place exactly at sunrise, so the best place to be to see it is the Yorkshire Coast with the horizon provided by the North Sea.”
      “The obscuration of a celestial object which cannot be observed because another object is located between itself and the observer.”
obscurantism
  1. A state of opposition to human progress or enlightenment.
  2. Deliberate obscurity or vagueness.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Of course under some circumstances you find yourself skirting the edge of obscurantism.”
      “The ruling regime sustains itself through a combination of fear, prejudice and religious obscurantism.”
      “My theory is that her obscurantism is a revenge for the drooling nonsense recited about her by men, male directors especially.”
obscurification
  1. (colloquial, slang, used as a nonce only) The act of making something obscure, or (in computing) obfuscating source code etc.
obscurantist
  1. A practitioner of obscurantism; an obscurant
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The obscurantist refused to engage in any discussion about technological advancements, firmly clinging to outdated methods and dismissing any potential benefits.”
      “Cumulatively, however, the proliferation of obscurantist bunkum and the reaction against reason are a menace to civilisation.”
      “Levi was well-known for his impatience with long-winded, solipsistic or obscurantist prose.”
obscurement
  1. The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured.
  2. Examples:
    1. “If your face piece is dirty, you might as well be fighting a fire with a visual obscurement device on your mask.”
      “Partial or total obscurement of pavement markings by snow or ice presents more of a potential driving hazard to the passing motorist than to the nonpassing motorist.”
obscureness
  1. The state or quality of being obscure.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “There was an obscureness in his writings which consisted of highly expressive language coupled with contradictory views.”
      “The owl sits in this spot all day, and hunts during the hours of obscureness.”
      “Then it was rain, wind, obscureness of gloom, and lightning.”
obscurer
  1. One who, or that which, obscures.
obscurifications
  1. plural of obscurification
obscurantists
obscurantisms
obscurations
obscurements
  1. plural of obscurement
obscurenesses
obscurants
obscurities
  1. plural of obscurity
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  3. Examples:
    1. “But if you think a textbook should be generally free of significant obscurities and confusions, then it fails.”
      “Balancing out the aforementioned examples of popular sentiment are a host of obscurities from various branches of urbane soul.”
      “Once again, he has mined his record collection for coolly funky obscurities and supplied several of his own slightly more visceral instrumentals.”
obscurers
  1. plural of obscurer
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