obscuration
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8.2
- noun
- /ˌɑbskjʊˈreɪʃən/
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obscuración
- The scientist explained that the obscuration of light during the eclipse would last for several minutes.
- dark obscuration
The eyes obscurations are inexhaustible and transforming them is a constant practice.
- The eyes obscurations are inexhaustible and transforming them is a constant practice.
Examples
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Thunderheads are an obscuration of rain, a glottal stop.
Fiction book (2002) -
We are labeling the conventional "me" on the entire mental continuum as an appropriate basis for labeling, and that would include the point of that mental continuum when all the obscurations will be removed, that resultant state, that state that we are aiming for with bodhichitta to benefit everyone.
Blog text (6) -
In 1913 he titled an article, "Dark Regions in the Sky Suggesting an Obscuration of Light."
Academic text (1992) -
Proposed designs for catadioptric exposure systems use an off-axis optical system, a central obscuration optical system, or a polarizing beamsplitter cube configuration.
Academic text (2001) -
To be written honestly in this day and age, a fishing book has to acknowledge the threats squarely or hide behind a nostalgic obscuration; it has to take on an edge, as it were, and sacrifice a portion of its lyricism to the hard blade of truth.
Fiction book (1991) -
The difference, of course, lies in the type of difficulty encountered: obscuration and distance uncertainties for the Milky Way and a steep angle of inclination for M31.
Academic text (1993) -
The obscuration of the mountain peaks by thick fog made it impossible to see the view.
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During the presentation, the obscuration of the main topic caused confusion among the audience.
Synonyms
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2.7
Being where other people cannot find you to stay safe
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4.4
Keeping information hidden from other people
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6.1
Stopping people from expressing opinions or practising traditions by force
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4.6
A way of hiding something so it is not easily seen
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8.7
Making something unclear or hard to understand on purpose
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5.0
Keeping something hidden or secret
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4.8
Objects that hide parts of a stage from the audience
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8.3
How hard something is to understand because it is unclear
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3.5
Plants or structures that block the view to give privacy
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5.3
An act of hiding something so people do not know about it
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6.9
Dark or dim so things are hard to see
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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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9.3
A change that makes something cloudy so you cannot see through it
One object hiding another from the viewer or camera
How hard it is to understand something because its meaning is unclear
Very hard to understand because the ideas are unclear or complicated
Darkness or low light that makes things hard to see
Antonyms
How Hidden
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Obscuration comes from the Latin root obscur-, the same root as obscure, which means 'dark' or 'hidden'. Think of something that makes a light dark or covers a view; that's why an obscuration is something that hides, blocks, or makes things hard to understand.