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Notoriety vs Obscurity - What's the difference?

notoriety | obscurity |

As nouns the difference between notoriety and obscurity

is that notoriety is the condition of being infamous or notorious while obscurity is darkness; the absence of light.

notoriety

English

Noun

(notorieties)
  • The condition of being infamous or notorious.
  • *
  • * {{quote-book, year=1897, author=
  • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.}}

    Synonyms

    * ill fame * infamy

    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.