different between enigma vs obscurity

English

Alternative forms

• ænigma (chiefly archaic)

Etymology

From Latin aenigma (“riddle”), being derived itself from the Ancient Greek verbal noun ??????? (aínigma, “dark saying, speaking in riddles”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n??m?/, /??n??m?/

Noun

enigma (plural enigmas or enigmata)

1. Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable.
2. A riddle, or a difficult problem.

Related terms

• a riddle wrapped up in an enigma
• Enigma machine
• enigmatic

Translations

References

Anagrams

• gamine, imagen, in-game

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin aenigma (“riddle”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (aínigma, “dark saying, riddle”).

Noun

enigma m (plural enigmes)

1. enigma

Related terms

• enigmáticu

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish enigma, from Latin aenigma (“riddle”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (aínigma, “dark saying, riddle”).

Noun

enigma inan

1. enigma

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin aenigma (“riddle”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (aínigma, “dark saying, riddle”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /??ni?.m?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /e?ni?.ma/

Noun

enigma m (plural enigmes)

1. enigma

Derived terms

• enigmàtic

Further reading

• “enigma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Esperanto

Etymology

enigmo +? -a

Adjective

enigma (accusative singular enigman, plural enigmaj, accusative plural enigmajn)

1. enigmatic

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?eni?m?/, [?e?ni?m?]
• Rhymes: -eni?m?
• Syllabification: e?nig?ma

Noun

enigma

1. enigma

Declension

Galician

Etymology

From Latin aenigma (“riddle”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (aínigma, “dark saying, riddle”).

Noun

enigma m (plural enigmas)

1. enigma

Related terms

• enigmático

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ænigma, from Ancient Greek ??????? (aínigma).

Noun

enigma m (plural enigmi)

1. enigma, riddle, conundrum

   Synonyms: giallo, mistero

Related terms

• enigmatico
• enigmista
• enigmistica
• enigmistico

References

Anagrams

• gemina, igname

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e??ni?.ma/, [e??n??mä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e?ni?.ma/, [??ni?m?]

Noun

?nigma n (genitive ?nigmatis); third declension

1. Alternative form of aenigma

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin aenigma (“riddle”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (aínigma, “dark saying, riddle”).

Noun

enigma m (plural enigmas)

1. enigma

Related terms

• enigmático

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [e?ni?ma]

Noun

enigma f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of enigm?

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin aenigma (“riddle”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (aínigma, “dark saying, riddle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?ni?ma/, [e?ni??.ma]

Noun

enigma m (plural enigmas)

1. enigma, conundrum (something that is puzzling)
2. riddle, conundrum

Related terms

• enigmático
• enigmáticamente

Further reading

• “enigma” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Anagrams

• gemina

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

Translations