obscureness

1. 1.

   the state of being humble and unimportant

   Synonymshumblenessunimportancelowliness

   Broaderobscurity
2. 2.

   the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination

   Synonymsobscurity

   Broadersemidarkness
3. 3.

   the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand

   Synonymsobscurityabstrusenessreconditeness

   Broaderincomprehensibility

Other forms of obscureness

plural

obscurenesses·

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 obscureness

What does obscureness mean?

obscureness means "the state of being humble and unimportant". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in obscureness?

obscureness has 4 syllables: ob-scu-re-ness. The stress falls on "scu".

What is another word for obscureness?

Close synonyms include humbleness, unimportance, lowliness, obscurity, obscurity. 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 obscureness a common word?

obscureness 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.