Definition of Obfuscation

1. Noun. Confusion resulting from failure to understand.


2. Noun. The activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered.
Exact synonyms: Mystification
Generic synonyms: Activity
Derivative terms: Mystify, Mystify, Obfuscate

3. Noun. Darkening or obscuring the sight of something.
Generic synonyms: Blackening, Darkening
Derivative terms: Obfuscate

Definition of Obfuscation

1. n. The act of darkening or bewildering; the state of being darkened.

Definition of Obfuscation

1. Noun. The act or process of obfuscating, or obscuring the perception of something; the concept of concealing the meaning of a communication by making it more confusing and harder to interpret. ¹

2. Noun. Confusion, bewilderment, or a baffled state resulting from something obfuscated, or made more opaque and muddled with the intent to obscure information. ¹

3. Noun. A single instance of intentionally obscuring the meaning of something to make it more difficult to grasp. ¹

4. Noun. (computing uncountable) The option to alter computer code, preserving its behavior but concealing its structure and intent. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Obfuscation

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Obfuscation

1. 1. A rendering dark or obscure. 2. A deliberate attempt to confuse or to prevent understanding. Origin: L. Ob-fusco, pp. -atus, to darken, fr. Fuscus, dark, tawny (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Obfuscation

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obeyer
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obeying
obeyingly
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obeysant
obeysaunt
obfirmation
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obfuscation (current term)
obfuscations
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obidoxime
obidoxime chloride
obied
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Literary usage of Obfuscation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1856)
"... opium takes kindly, and acts so as to induce over the mind, not weakness and obfuscation, but strength and brightness of all the intellectual powers. ..."

2. The Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist by Jacques Vallee (1982)
"If there were a science of user interaction, the obfuscation Imperative would ... The obfuscation Imperative states that: Whenever there are two ways to ..."

3. An Italian and English Dictionary with Pronunciation and Brief Etymologies by August Hjalmar Edgren, Giuseppe Bico, John Lawrence Gerig (1901)
"... X. : obfuscation (darkening). ||-soare [L.], TR. : obfuscate (darken, obscure) ... F. : obfuscation (darkening). ofl ..."

4. The Syllogistic Philosophy Or Prolegomena to Science by Francis Ellingwood Abbot (1906)
"The word Agnosticism, originally adopted by Huxley as the name of the obfuscation which he had avowedly derived from Mansel, Hamilton, ..."

5. The Lutheran Church Review by Alumni Association (1903)
"7) would indicate incredible obfuscation in the mind ... Perhaps there is more "incredible obfuscation" in this explanation than in the address it is ..."

6. Boenninghausen's characteristics and repertory by Clemens Maria Franz von Bönninghausen (1905)
"Mental obfuscation, with ... Bruised pain of the internal and external vertex and occiput, with chaotic obfuscation therein. He bores the back of his head ..."

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