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Plural of obscurity

regular plural

The plural of obscurity is obscurities.

Forms of obscurity

Singularobscurity /əbˈskjʊəɹɪti/
Pluralobscurities
Countablecountable and uncountable

Obscurities in a sentence

  • Within the midst of its linguistic obscurities, Joyce embeds a few readily recognizable words.1994, Paul J. Griffiths, On Being Buddha: The Classical Doctrine of Buddhahood, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, pages 116–117. From the entry omnilinguality
  • The store has its own music label — compilations of fashiony dance bands, French-Arabic tunes and other obscurities.2007 September 6, Mike Albo, “The Department of Just Right”, in New York Times. From the entry fashiony
  • Ockham was critical of so many of his fellows for sicklying over theology with the obscurities of philosophy.2000, Ninian Smart, chapter 9, in World Philosophies, New York: Routledge, page 207. From the entry sickly
  • The question makes the obscurities and withdrawals and unappealingness of modern art seem willful — which is another fact of the experience of that art.1967, W. H. Capitan, D. D. Merrill, Art, Mind, and Religion. From the entry unappealingness
  • Under-punctuation (which is fashionable to-day) throws a great deal of the burden of interpretation on the reader, and sometimes leaves him with obscurities and ambiguities.1957, George Henry Vallins, “Points of Punctuation”, in Good English: How to Write It, London: Pan Books Ltd., page 112. From the entry under-punctuation

Meaning of obscurity

  1. noun Darkness; the absence of light.
  2. noun The state of being unknown; a thing that is unknown.
  3. noun The quality of being difficult to understand; a thing that is difficult to understand.

Full definition of obscurity

Questions about the plural of obscurity

What is the plural of obscurity?
The plural of obscurity is obscurities.
Is obscurity countable?
Obscurity is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: obscurity (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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