obscurity

noun

1 he brought the club back to the big time after years of obscurity:

insignificance, inconspicuousness, unimportance, anonymity, lack of fame/renown/honor/recognition, nonrecognition, ingloriousness, limbo, twilight, oblivion.

▷antonyms fame.

2 poems of impenetrable obscurity:

incomprehensibility, impenetrability, unintelligibility, obscureness, complexity, intricacy, opacity, opaqueness, unclearness;

abstruseness, reconditeness, arcaneness, deepness, esotericism.

▷antonyms clarity.

3 the obscurities in his poems and plays:

enigma, puzzle, mystery, difficulty, problem, complication, intricacy, ambiguity;

crux.

4 the brightness of the light on stage left the recesses of the wings in obscurity:

darkness, blackness, dimness, gloom, gloominess, murk, murkiness, shadow, shadowiness;

rare tenebrosity.