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And while his aesthetic seems like ingratiating wholesome Americana, there’s an avant-garde obscureness underneath it.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2021

Thirdly, the author has, in many cases, contented himself with abstract reasoning, and therefore is sometimes chargeable with obscureness, on which account familiar illustrations have been supplied.

From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

Subdued splits and splutters whispered from out the obscureness, and a gentle grinding could be heard.

From A Daughter of the Snows by London, Jack

But, secondly, this distinction of focus and margin cannot be drawn on the basis of the experienced contrast between clearness and obscureness.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

A sensation as such—if we are bound to speak of sensations—can by no possibility be an obscure sensation, for the trait that we call obscureness or vagueness constitutes the intrinsic being of that sensation.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.