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Obvious vs Obnosis - What's the difference?

obvious | obnosis |

As an adjective obvious

is easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.

As a noun obnosis is

(chiefly|scientology) observing the obvious.

obvious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.
  • *
  • *:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-17, volume=408, issue=8849, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Down towns , passage=It is not obvious , to economists anyway, that cities should exist at all. Crowds of people mean congestion and costly land and labour. But there are also well-known advantages to bunching up. When transport costs are sufficiently high a firm can spend more money shipping goods to clusters of consumers than it saves on cheap land and labour.}}

    Synonyms

    * See also .

    Antonyms

    * unobvious * non-obvious * subtle

    Derived terms

    * obviously * obviousness

    See also

    * plain * clear * evident * manifest

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    obnosis

    English

    Noun

    (obnoses)
  • (chiefly, Scientology) Observing the obvious
  • * 1958 , Ability , Hubbard Association of Scientologists, International, page 12:
    • Here you will find the Instructor's Code, Obnosis and the Tone Scale and one of the best descriptions of Assist processing ever published.
  • * 1970 , B. Robert Ross, A Parent's Guide to the Teaching of Reading: A Compilation of Old and New Methods of Teaching and a New View of the Reading Process : Upstat Pub. Co.:
    • Obnosis (observing the obvious) must be used at every moment to determine the best next step with any student.
  • * 2006 February 23, Janet Reitman, “ Inside Scientology: Unlocking the complex code of America's most mysterious religion]”, [[w:Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone] :
    • Hubbard created Scientology's language to be unique to its members. It includes words that are interpretations, or variations, of standard terms: "isness," for example, which Scientology's glossaries say, in essence, means "reality." But there are also words that are wholly made up, such as "obnosis ," which means "observation of the obvious."

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