different between murkiness vs obscurity
murkiness
English
Etymology
From Middle English mirkines, equivalent to murky +? -ness. Compare also Middle English mirkenes, merkenes (“darkness”).
Noun
murkiness (usually uncountable, plural murkinesses)
- The state or quality of being murky.
murkiness From the web:
- what murkiness mean
- murkiness what does it mean
- what is murkiness of water
- what is murkiness synonym
- what do murkiness meaning
- what rhymes with murkiness
- what does moral murkiness mean
obscurity
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)
- (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.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, ch. 24
- The state of being unknown; a thing that is unknown.
- 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
obscurity From the web:
- what obscurity means
- obscurity what does that word mean
- what does obscurity mean
- what does obscurity mean in the bible
- what is obscurity rating
- what does obscurity rating mean
- what does obscurity
- what do obscurity mean
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- murkiness vs obscurity
- habiliments vs gear
- hint vs trimming
- call vs screech
- malignant vs icy
- gingerly vs buoyantly
- multitudinous vs swarming
- schoolmaster vs tutor
- joyous vs blithesome
- sagging vs excess
- basic vs instinctive
- bonehead vs noodle
- throng vs meeting
- find vs booty
- meet vs expert
- endeavour vs experiment
- servant vs assistant
- descent vs tumble
- nourishment vs pasturage
- amorous vs benevolent