obscurity

Roget-categorie 571

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means

#571. Obscurity

zelfstandig naamwoord

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.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

obscure etc. n. — crabbed, involved, confused.

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