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Obfuscate vs Obnubilate - What's the difference?

obfuscate | obnubilate |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between obfuscate and obnubilate

is that obfuscate is (obsolete) obfuscated; darkened; obscured while obnubilate is (obsolete) obscured.

As verbs the difference between obfuscate and obnubilate

is that obfuscate is to make dark; overshadow while obnubilate is (obsolete) to obscure, to shadow.

As adjectives the difference between obfuscate and obnubilate

is that obfuscate is (obsolete) obfuscated; darkened; obscured while obnubilate is (obsolete) obscured.

obfuscate

English

Verb

(obfuscat)
  • To make dark; overshadow
  • To deliberately make more confusing in order to conceal the truth.
    • Before leaving the scene, the murderer set a fire to obfuscate any evidence of his or her identity.
  • (computing) To alter code while preserving its behavior but concealing its structure and intent.
    • We need to obfuscate these classes before we ship the final release.

    Synonyms

    * (to make dark) darken, eclipse, overshadow * (to deliberately make more confusing) confuse, muddle, obscure

    Antonyms

    * (to deliberately make less confusing) explain, simplify

    Derived terms

    * obfuscatable * unobfuscatable

    Related terms

    * obfuscation * obfuscatory * obfuscous

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Obfuscated; darkened; obscured.

    • obnubilate

    English

    Verb

    (onbubilat)
  • (obsolete) To obscure, to shadow.
    • "There is here fine criticism, classic wit, poetic dreaming, and some grains of sound doctrine, but so obnubilated with the fumes of German metaphysics, that we become giddy"'' ''(The Princeton Review, Samuel Coleridge)
  • To make cloudy.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) obscured
  • cloudy
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