obscurity
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7.4
- noun
- /əbˈskjʊrɪti/
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- After years of hard work, she finally emerged from obscurity to become a famous author.
- fade into obscurity
- fall into obscurity
- emerge from obscurity
They're living in obscurity, they're untrusted, unrecognized, unknown.
- They're living in obscurity, they're untrusted, unrecognized, unknown.
- All of this is and he died in obscurity in a, in a village in in the Pyrenees.
- So almost eight years in in obscurity.
- So you go from Internet obscurity to one of the most famous people, bring down that word.
- And I honestly, I don't know how this will sound, but like, I miss the obscurity.
- OK, so I'll go broke just trying to get out of obscurity and I'm going to use these free mediums to do so.
- In truth, many events that seem so significant in the moment are all too often consigned to a state of obscurity.
- And Epicurus lived in this little private garden on the outside Athens, surrounded by a circle of his friends and relative obscurity.
- That is a very atypical experience because you went from obscurity to to number one in an industry in in weeks.
- And so they showed this person's rise from sort of obscurity and was like the poor relation and to their subsequent downfall and just how sad it was.
Examples
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We have as much need for obscurity as you do.
Fiction book (1998) -
"It's best for me to work in some level of obscurity," he told me in 1992.
Academic text (1997) -
Some will sink back into obscurity.
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The National Road deserves to be rescued from the obscurity in which it has long languished.
Academic text (1998) -
Morales grew up in the impoverished obscurity of rural highland Bolivia.
Academic text (2004) -
Antipas and Herodias were exiled to Gaul, where they died in obscurity.
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Zedillo had emerged from relative obscurity only after the assassination of the PRI's initial candidate, Luis Donaldo Colosio.
Academic text (1999) -
The museum aims to bring the artist's work out of obscurity and into public recognition.
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He thrived in obscurity, enjoying a quiet life away from the media spotlight.
Synonyms
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6.5
Being unknown so other people do not know who you are
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4.4
A way of behaving to avoid attention or public notice
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6.0
The state of not being seen by other people
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4.6
A situation or thing that is not worth much attention
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7.5
A situation where someone or something gets little public attention
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7.8
A state in which something is out of sight and hard to notice or understand
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8.6
The state of not being able to be seen
Being unknown and not famous
A state of being unknown and not noticed by many people
Being hard to notice in a place or crowd
A state of not being seen or heard by other people
Being alone and not seen by other people
Being secret so other people do not know about it
A gradual loss of memories that makes you forget the past
A quality of blending into surroundings so something is hard to see
Antonyms
How Famous
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2.8
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1.0
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3.4
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7.4
55
4.4
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6.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Obscurity comes from the Latin obscurus meaning 'dark' or 'hidden', the same root as obscure. So being in obscurity is like being 'in the dark' about fame — unknown or not noticed.