Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word OBSCURITY

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Definitions of OBSCURITY

1. The state of being unknown; a thing that is unknown.
2. The quality of being difficult to understand; a thing that is difficult to understand.
3. (literary) Darkness; the absence of light.

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Examples of Using OBSCURITY in a Sentence

• Picked from obscurity and supported by the neighboring Roman-allied Kingdom of Pergamon, Alexander landed in Phoenicia in 152 BC and started a civil war against Seleucid King Demetrius I Soter.
• Programmers may deliberately obfuscate code to conceal its purpose (security through obscurity) or its logic or implicit values embedded in it, primarily, in order to prevent tampering, deter reverse engineering, or even to create a puzzle or recreational challenge for someone reading the source code.
• In security engineering, security through obscurity is the practice of concealing the details or mechanisms of a system to enhance its security.
• At age 33, after years of obscurity, Williams suddenly became famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie (1944) in New York City.
• Although well known in his own time, Kyd fell into obscurity until 1773 when Thomas Hawkins, an early editor of The Spanish Tragedy, discovered that Thomas Heywood, in his Apologie for Actors (1612), attributed the play to Kyd.
• This concept is widely embraced by cryptographers, in contrast to security through obscurity, which is not.
• Thereafter, it seems to have fallen into obscurity until the 19th century, when Assyriologists began deciphering the cuneiform inscriptions and excavated tablets that had been left by its speakers.
• This book, proving the Mohr–Mascheroni theorem 125 years earlier than Lorenzo Mascheroni, would languish in obscurity until its rediscovery in 1928.
• Although originally popular enough to receive his own Flamen, he vanished into obscurity around the time of the late Roman Republic.
• Scholars have commented on the obscurity of the figure's name and have proposed various theories to explain the role and origin of the giantess.
• Malicious bots can use the file as a directory of which pages to visit, though standards bodies discourage countering this with security through obscurity.
• On October 28, 2015, a militarized balloon crash-landed there, bringing the town to prominence after a century and a half of obscurity.
• Valenzuela enjoyed his breakout year in 1981, when "Fernandomania" rapidly catapulted him from relative obscurity to stardom.
• After suffering crushing defeats at the battles of Sabugal and Fuentes de Oñoro, Napoleon sacked and replaced Masséna with Marshal Auguste de Marmont, and Masséna did not serve the French military again, instead becoming the local commander at Marseille, ending his military career in disgrace and obscurity.
• The former says we should expect things to go wrong now and then, and the latter says the exceptional events where something went wrong stand out in memory, but the great number of mundane events where nothing exceptional happened fall into obscurity.
• After 75 years of obscurity following his death, Smith was rediscovered as the American whose explorations led to the use of the -wide South Pass as the dominant route across the Continental Divide for pioneers on the Oregon Trail.
• Because the Marx Brothers' film had so many qualities—autocracy, diminutiveness, and obscurity, to name but a few—a place can be described as "Freedonian" for having any one of these qualities.
• Due to their obscurity they do not have a proper common name, though in academic literature they are occasionally referred to as hooded tickspiders.
• Though there is obscurity about his private affairs after the death of Maria Anna, it is known that from his mistress Elisabeth de Vaux, Charles had a son, Charles Alexandre Guillaume Joseph, and a grandson through the same; a stillborn daughter by an unnamed mistress; a son, Charles Frédéric, by an unnamed mistress; a son, Jean Nicholas, and a daughter, Anne Françoise, by an unnamed mistress.
• Because of the obscurity of the name "Perseus" and the legendary character of its bearer, most etymologists presume that it might be pre-Greek; however, the name of Perseus's native city was Greek and so were the names of his wife and relatives.
• Bazard, after remaining for some time in obscurity in Paris, came to the conclusion that the ends of those who wished well to the people would be most easily attained, not through political agitation, but by effecting a radical change in their social condition.
• Consequently, Zoe lived a life of virtual obscurity in the imperial gynaeceum (women's quarters) for many years.
• Aiming to avoid ambiguity or obscurity, the work references the common Hassidic halakha with its underlying reasoning.
• On the other hand, Professor Kirstie Blair contends that McGonagall's poems are no better or worse than most of the broadside ballads that were sold on the streets of Scotland in the 19th-century, whose authors have long since sunk into obscurity.
• However, perhaps due to the obscurity of the journals in which the papers of Lemaître and Synge were published their conclusions went unnoticed, with many of the major players in the field including Einstein believing that the singularity at the Schwarzschild radius was physical.

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