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Obfuscation   /ˌɑbfəskˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Obfuscation

noun
1.
Confusion resulting from failure to understand.  Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, puzzlement.
2.
The activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered.  Synonym: mystification.
3.
Darkening or obscuring the sight of something.





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"Obfuscation" Quotes from Famous Books



... In the obfuscation of his "sivin" senses, the young Irishman may have scarcely understood what was passing around him. It was too clear to his companions,—clear as a catastrophe could be to ...
— The Boy Slaves • Mayne Reid
... forgotten that he was in a foreign land; forgotten the purpose that brought him there; forgotten his brother; forgotten those associated with him were Spaniards, not Atholemen; in truth, forgotten everything he should have recollected. In this happy state of obfuscation, Donald continued to roar, to drink, and to talk away precisely as he was wont to do in Rory M'Fadyen's "public" in Kilnichrochokan. From being oratorical, Donald became musical, and insisted on having a song from some of his friends; but failing to make his request intelligible, he volunteered ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 - Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative • Alexander Leighton


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