different between cloudiness vs obscurity

English

Etymology

cloudy +? -ness

Noun

cloudiness (countable and uncountable, plural cloudinesses)

1. The state of being cloudy (e.g. weather).

   Expect considerable cloudiness with occasional rain showers.

2. The property of being murky (e.g. liquid, style).

   Cloudiness in the water is most often caused in new aquariums by white bacteria.

3. The property of being obscure (e.g. information).

   Avoid cloudiness in your essay-writing.

Translations

Anagrams

• discounsel, senoculids, undisclose

English

Etymology

From Middle French obscurité, from Latin obsc?rit?s; synchronically analyzable as obscure +? -ity

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?skj????ti/, /?b?skj????ti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?skj???ti/, /?b?skj??ti/
• Hyphenation: ob?scur?ity

Noun

obscurity (countable and uncountable, plural obscurities)

1. (literary) Darkness; the absence of light.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, ch. 24

     I walked in, and Stroeve followed me. The room was in darkness. I could only see that it was an attic, with a sloping roof; and a faint glimmer, no more than a less profound obscurity, came from a skylight.

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.

Synonyms

• (the state of being unknown): unknownness

Antonyms

• (the state of being known): fame
• (the state of being clear): clarity

Related terms

• obscure

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