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obscuration

English

Noun

obscuration (countable and uncountable, plural obscurations)

  1. The state of being obscured.
    • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. X, Plugson of Undershot
      Money is miraculous. What miraculous facilities has it yielded, will it yield us; but also what never-imagined confusions, obscurations has it brought in; down almost to total extinction of the moral-sense in large masses of mankind!
  2. A unit of measurement used in particular for smoke detectors which respond to absorption of light by smoke, in percent absorption per unit length, e.g. % obs/ft, % obs/m.

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obscurantism

English

Etymology

From Latin obsc?rans, present participle of obsc?r? (“cover, darken, obscure”) +? -ism.

Noun

obscurantism (countable and uncountable, plural obscurantisms)

  1. A state of opposition to human progress or enlightenment.
  2. Deliberate obscurity or vagueness.

Related terms

  • obscurantist
  • obscuration
  • obscure
  • obscurity

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French obscurantisme.

Noun

obscurantism n (uncountable)

  1. obscurantism

Declension

Related terms

  • obscur
  • obscurantist
  • obscuritate

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