obfuscation

1. 1.

   confusion resulting from failure to understand

   Synonymsbewildermentpuzzlementbefuddlementmystificationbafflementbemusement

   Broaderconfusion
2. 2.

   the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered

   Synonymsmystification

   Broaderactivity
3. 3.

   darkening or obscuring the sight of something

   Broaderblackening

Other forms of obfuscation

plural

obfuscations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about obfuscation

What does obfuscation mean?

obfuscation means "confusion resulting from failure to understand". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in obfuscation?

obfuscation has 4 syllables: ob-fu-sca-tion. The stress falls on "sca". In IPA it is /ˌɑbfəˈskeɪʃən/.

What is another word for obfuscation?

Close synonyms include bewilderment, puzzlement, befuddlement, mystification, bafflement. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is obfuscation a common word?

obfuscation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with obfuscation?

1 word rhymes with obfuscation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.