obscureness

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And while his aesthetic seems like ingratiating wholesome Americana, there’s an avant-garde obscureness underneath it.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2021

But, secondly, this distinction of focus and margin cannot be drawn on the basis of the experienced contrast between clearness and obscureness.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

The place so offensive for its cloudiness, is,   —The obscureness of her birth   Cannot eclipse the lustre of her eyes,   Which make her all one light.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. by Cibber, Theophilus

The dark companion, no longer able to hide itself by its obscureness, was brought out into the light of direct observation by means of its gravitational effects.

From Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 by Various

Thou mayst in after ages live esteemed, Unburied in these lines, reserved in pureness; These shall entomb those eyes, that have redeemed Me from the vulgar, thee from all obscureness.

From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Crow, Martha Foote