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

As a starting-point for a reconsideration of focus and margin, we may take those experiences in which the distinction of clearness and obscureness is presented as an experienced fact.

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

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

Something quick and subtle ran through my veins; something that for a few moments seemed to burn away the obscureness which blurs our thought.

From When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot by Haggard, Henry Rider

Thirdly, the author has, in many cases, contented himself with abstract reasoning, and therefore is sometimes chargeable with obscureness, on which account familiar illustrations have been supplied.

From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)