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What does obscurity mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word obscurity? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (literary) Darkness; the absence of light.
  2. The state of being unknown; a thing that is unknown.
  3. The quality of being difficult to understand; a thing that is difficult to understand.
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The intoxicating obscurity of ancient Japanese culture is shown to be irrational and confusing.
He is the world-renowned authority and registrar on the species he rescued from obscurity.
The paintings of a Mancunian former teacher have taken the art world by storm after years of obscurity.
This can result in obscurity or in a ruling which is ambiguous on matters of importance.
In 1990 Kyrgyz reformers picked a physicist essentially out of obscurity to run their country.
He lived very frugally in a small thatched cottage at Ickford in the greatest obscurity and anchorism.

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