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Obscureness

noun
1.
The state of being humble and unimportant.  Synonyms: humbleness, lowliness, unimportance.
2.
The state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination.  Synonym: obscurity.
3.
The quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand.  Synonyms: abstruseness, obscurity, reconditeness.






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"Obscureness" Quotes from Famous Books



... chill gray light she could see the ice rubbing softly against the very crest of the bank; it even topped it in places, and the huge cakes worked inshore many feet. A hundred yards out the white field merged into the dim dawn and the gray sky. Subdued splits and splutters whispered from out the obscureness, and a gentle grinding could ...
— A Daughter of the Snows • Jack London

... water, but to me it tasted more like strong champagne, dashed with Chateau Yquem. It was delicious. More, its effects were distinctly peculiar. Something quick and subtle ran through my veins; something that for a few moments seemed to burn away the obscureness which blurs our thought. I began to understand several problems that had puzzled me, and then lost their explanations in the midst of light, inner light, I mean. Moreover, of a sudden it seemed to me as though a window had been opened in the heart of that Glittering ...
— When the World Shook - Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot • H. Rider Haggard

... was rain, wind, obscureness of gloom, and lightning. I caught a glimpse of the men on the lower-yards as they were blotted from view and as the Elsinore heeled over and down. There were fifteen men of them to each yard, and the gaskets were well ...
— The Mutiny of the Elsinore • Jack London



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