Noun

(en-noun)

A difficult question or riddle, especially one using a play on words in the answer.

* 1816 ,

“Why should I understand that, or anything else?” asked the girl. “Don’t bother my head by asking conundrums , I beg of you. Just let me discover myself in my own way.”

A difficult choice or decision that must be made.

* 2004 , , statement read before being sentenced to five months in prison

And while I am more concerned about the well-being of others than for myself, more hurt for them and for their losses than for my own, more worried for their futures than for the future of Martha Stewart the person, you are faced with a conundrum , a problem of monumental, to me, proportions.

Noun

(label) Darkness; the absence of light.

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, chapter=6, title= The Dust of Conflict , passage=The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land. It rose in places, black and sharp against the velvety indigo, over her dipping bow, though most of the low littoral was wrapped in obscurity .}}

* 1919 ,

*:I walked in, and Stroeve followed me. The room was in darkness. I could only see that it was an attic, with a sloping roof; and a faint glimmer, no more than a less profound obscurity , came from a skylight.

The state of being unknown; a thing that is unknown.

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)

, chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.

The quality of being difficult to understand; a thing that is difficult to understand.