obscureness

Example Sentences

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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 obscureness of her birth Cannot eclipse the lustre of her eyes Which make her all one light."

From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan

It is 267 the subsequent, satisfactory experience of the name which furnishes our standard for clearness; in other words, the implications of obscureness are of a functional, and not of a static or structural, kind.

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

A sensation as such—if we are bound to speak of sensations—can by no possibility be an obscure sensation, for the trait that we call obscureness or vagueness constitutes the intrinsic being of that sensation.

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