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Dimness vs Obscurity - What's the difference?

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Dimness is a related term of obscurity.


As nouns the difference between dimness and obscurity

is that dimness is the state of being dim, poorly illuminated, almost dark while obscurity is (label) darkness; the absence of light.

dimness

English

Noun

  • The state of being dim, poorly illuminated, almost dark.
  • Anagrams

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    obscurity

    Noun

  • (label) Darkness; the absence of light.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1907, author=
  • , 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.