The quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand.

synoniemen: abstruseness, obscureness, reconditeness.

Roget 475: uncertainty, incertitude, doubt; doubtfulness etc. adj.; dubiety, dubitation^†, dubitancy^†, dubitousness^†.    hesitation, suspense; perplexity, embarrassment, dilemma, bewilderment; timidity etc. (fear) 860; vacillation etc. 605; diaporesis^†, indetermination.    vagueness etc. adj.; haze, fog; obscurity etc. (darkness) 421; ambiguity etc. (double meaning) 520; contingency, dependence, dependency, double contingency, possibility upon a possibility; open question etc. (question) 461; onus probandi [Lat.]; blind bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark, something or other; needle in a haystack, needle in a bottle of hay; roving commission.    precariousness etc. adj.; fallibility.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 876: commonalty, democracy; obscurity; low condition, low life, low society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the people, mass of society; Brown Jones and Robinson; lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders; vulgar herd, common herd; rank and file, hoc genus omne [Lat.]; the many, the general, the crowd, the people, the populace, the multitude, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry; king Mob; proletariat; fruges consumere nati [Lat.], demos, hoi polloi [Gr.], great unwashed; man in the street.    mob; rabble, rabble rout; chaff, rout, horde, canaille; scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society; swinish multitude, foex populi^†; trash; profanum vulgus [Lat.], ignobile vulgus [Lat.]; vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail; small fry.    commoner, one of the people, democrat, plebeian, republican, proletary^†, proletaire^†, roturier^†, Mr.    Snooks, bourgeois, epicier [Fr.], Philistine, cockney; grisette^†, demimonde.    peasant, countryman, boor, carle^†, churl; villain, villein; terrae filius [Lat.], son of the land; serf, kern^†, tyke, tike, chuff^†, ryot^†, fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy^†; rustic, hayseed [Slang], lunkhead [U.S.], chaw-bacon [Slang], tiller of the soil; hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling^†; gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin^†, looby^†, rube [U.S.], lout, underling; gamin; rough; pot-wallopper^†, slubberdegullion^†; vulgar fellow, low fellow; cad, curmudgeon.    upstart, parvenu, skipjack^†; nobody, nobody one knows; hesterni quirites [Lat.], pessoribus orti [Lat.]; bourgeois gentilhomme [Fr.], novus homo [Lat.], snob, gent, mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer; man of straw.    beggar, gaberlunzie^†, muckworm^†, mudlark^†, sans culotte, raff^†, tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp, vagabond, bezonian^†, panhandler [Slang], sundowner^†, chiffonnier, Cinderella, cinderwench^†, scrub, jade; gossoon^†.    Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo; unlicked cub^†, rough diamond^†.    barbarousness, barbarism; boeotia.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 519: unintelligibility; incomprehensibility, imperspicuity^†; inconceivableness, vagueness etc. adj.; obscurity; ambiguity etc. 520; doubtful meaning; uncertainty etc. 475; perplexity etc. (confusion) 59; spinosity^†; obscurum per obscurius [Lat.]; mystification etc. (concealment) 528; latency etc. 526; transcendentalism.    paradox, oxymoron; riddle, enigma, puzzle etc. (secret) 533; diagnus vindice nodus [Lat.]; sealed book; steganography^†, freemasonry.    pons asinorum [Lat.], asses' bridge; high Dutch, Greek, Hebrew; jargon etc. (unmeaning) 517.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 421: darkness etc. adj., absence of light; blackness etc. (dark color) 431; obscurity, gloom, murk; dusk etc. (dimness) 422.    Cimmerian darkness^†, Stygian darkness, Egyptian darkness; night; midnight; dead of night, witching hour of night, witching time of night; blind man's holiday; darkness visible, darkness that can be felt; palpable obscure; Erebus [Lat.]; the jaws of darkness" [Midsummer Night's Dream]; sablevested night" [Milton]. shade, shadow, umbra, penumbra; sciagraphy^†.    obscuration; occultation, adumbration, obumbration^†; obtenebration^†, offuscation^†, caligation^†; extinction; eclipse, total eclipse; gathering of the clouds.    shading; distribution of shade; chiaroscuro etc. (light) 420.    noctivagation^†.    [perfectly black objects] black body; hohlraum [Phys.]; black hole; dark star; dark matter, cold dark matter.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 571: obscurity etc. (unintelligibility) 519; involution; hard words; ambiguity etc. 520; unintelligibleness; vagueness etc. 475, inexactness etc. 495; what d'ye call 'em etc. (neologism) 563^†; darkness of meaning.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 426a: turbidity, cloudiness, fog, haze, muddiness, haziness, obscurity.    nephelometer [instrument to measure turbidity].

Nederlands: obscuriteit, onduidelijkheid
Pools: mglistość, niejasność, mętność

An obscure and unimportant standing; not well known.

The state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination.

synoniem: obscureness.