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   obscurity

   /əbˈskjʊərɪti/

   noun

   • 1. the state of being unknown, inconspicuous, or unimportant: "he is too good a player to slide into obscurity" Similar insignificanceinconspicuousnessunimportanceanonymitylack of fame/renown/honour/recognitionnon-recognitioningloriousnesslimbotwilightoblivionOpposite fame
   • ▪ the quality of being difficult to understand: "poems of impenetrable obscurity" Similar incomprehensibilityimpenetrabilityunintelligibilityobscurenesscomplexityintricacyopacityopaquenessunclearnessabstrusenessreconditenessarcanenessdeepnessesotericismOpposite clarity
   • ▪ a thing that is unclear or difficult to understand: "the obscurities in his poems and plays" Similar enigmapuzzlemysterydifficultyproblemcomplicationintricacyambiguitycrux

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French obscurite, from Latin obscuritas, from obscurus ‘dark’.

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   Jul 1, 2024 · free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression

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   3 days ago · Poverty, the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. Poverty is said to exist when people lack the means to satisfy their basic needs. Learn more about types and causes of poverty in this article.

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   Jun 13, 2024 · This darkness, however, is “dazzling obscurity” giving the self the unfathomable depth of meaning and being. The self is thus haloed with a luminous darkness. The third stage of Nishida’s philosophy was marked by a reversal of his whole procedure, as is shown in his Hataraku mono kara miru mono e (1927; “From the Acting to ...

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   5 days ago · intentionally vague or ambiguous.

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   Jun 28, 2024 · Democracy - Theory, Principles, Practice: In a funeral oration in 430 bce for those who had fallen in the Peloponnesian War, the Athenian leader Pericles described democratic Athens as “the school of Hellas.”.

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   1 day ago · Anna Funder is one of the authors who has rescued her from undeserved obscurity. Funder is a brilliant writer, and this is an eye-opener. I love books that challenge myths, and she has challenged ...

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   6 days ago · The sublime as a concept and phenomenon is harder to define than many aesthetic concepts, partly because of its content and partly because of the absence of a definition in the first great surviving text on the subject, Longinus’s On the Sublime.