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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
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sadness
English
Etymology
From Middle English sadnesse, equivalent to sad +? -ness.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sædn?s/
Noun
sadness (countable and uncountable, plural sadnesses)
- (uncountable) The state or emotion of being sad.
- Synonyms: forlornness, melancholy
- (countable) An event in one's life that causes sadness.
- Synonyms: misfortune, woe
Translations
sadness From the web:
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- what sadness feels like
- what sadness looks like
- what sadness does to your body
- what sadness is referred to here in the poem
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