English▸ noun
(plural obscurities)
[mass noun] the state of being unknown, inconspicuous, or unimportant: he is too good a player to slide into obscurity.
▪ the quality of being difficult to understand:
poems of impenetrable obscurity.
▪ [count noun] a thing that is unclear or difficult to understand:
the obscurities in his poems and plays.
– ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French obscurite, from Latin obscuritas, from obscurus ‘dark’.