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Concealment vs Obscuration - What's the difference?

concealment | obscuration |

As nouns the difference between concealment and obscuration

is that concealment is the practice of keeping secrets while obscuration is the state of being obscured.

concealment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The practice of keeping secrets
  • The condition of being hidden or concealed
  • (military) protection from observation or surveillance

    • obscuration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the state of being obscured
  • *1843 , '', book 3, ch. X, ''Plugson of Undershot
  • *:Money is miraculous. What miraculous facilities has it yielded, will it yield us; but also what never-imagined confusions, obscurations has it brought in; down almost to total extinction of the moral-sense in large masses of mankind!