obscure
adjective
(of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain.
obscureness
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a word derived from
obscure.
Example Sentences
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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
Then it was rain, wind, obscureness of gloom, and lightning.
From The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London
Subdued splits and splutters whispered from out the obscureness, and a gentle grinding could be heard.
From A Daughter of the Snows by Jack London
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 Boyd H. Bode
Something quick and subtle ran through my veins; something that for a few moments seemed to burn away the obscureness which blurs our thought.
From When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot by Henry Rider Haggard
