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Obstacle vs Obscuration - What's the difference?

obstacle | obscuration |

As nouns the difference between obstacle and obscuration

is that obstacle is something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress while obscuration is the state of being obscured.

obstacle

English

(Obstacle course)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
    • A big obstacle to understanding the manual was that it had been poorly translated from the Japanese.

    Synonyms

    * impediment * hindrance * hurdle * See also

    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!