What is another word for obfuscation?

Pronunciation: [ˌɒbfəskˈe͡ɪʃən] (IPA)

Obfuscation is the act of making something obscure or confusing. If you're looking for other words that mean the same thing, there are plenty of synonyms to choose from. Some options include: confusion, bewilderment, mystification, mystique, ambiguity, opacity, vagueness, equivocation, misdirection, or veil. Each of these words describes a state where something isn't clear or understood easily. Obfuscation can be intentional or unintentional, but regardless of the reason, the result is the same: a lack of clarity. When you come across an obfuscated message, it's helpful to seek out synonyms to help you understand it better.

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Usage examples for Obfuscation

Yet through her obfuscation, there ran admiration for Tarboe.
"Carnac's Folly, Volume 2."
Gilbert Parker
It is not provoked in the order of nature, until we draw its penetrating attentiveness to some circumstance with which we have been mixing our private interests, or our speculative obfuscation.
"The Short Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009
Not such a beard as one might starch and curl-but the beginnings-an obfuscation of the chin, cheeks, and upper lip-a horror of unseemly growth-a landscape of the face comparable to that ominous tract which, all agree, Hides the Dark Tower in Browning's grim poem of 'Childe Roland.
"The Perfect Gentleman"
Ralph Bergengren

Famous quotes with Obfuscation

  • In an age of dynamic malware obfuscation through operations such as mutating hash, a hyper-evolving threat landscape, and technologically next generation adversaries, offensive campaigns have an overwhelming advantage over defensive strategies.
    James Scott
  • [I]f you want to about faith, and offer a reasoned (and reason-responsive) defense of faith as an extra category of belief worthy of special consideration, I'm eager to [participate]. I certainly grant the existence of the phenomenon of faith; what I want to see is a reasoned ground for taking faith as a , and not, say, just as a way people comfort themselves and each other (a worthy function that I do take seriously). But you must not expect me to go along with your defense of faith as a path to truth if at any point you appeal to the very dispensation you are supposedly trying to justify. Before you appeal to faith when reason has you backed into a corner, think about whether you really want to abandon reason when reason is on your side. You are sightseeing with a loved one in a foreign land, and your loved one is brutally murdered in front of your eyes. At the trial it turns out that in this land friends of the accused may be called as witnesses for the defense, testifying about their faith in his innocence. You watch the parade of his moist-eyed friends, obviously sincere, proudly proclaiming their undying faith in the innocence of the man you saw commit the terrible deed. The judge listens intently and respectfully, obviously more moved by this outpouring than by all the evidence presented by the prosecution. Is this not a nightmare? Would you be willing to live in such a land? Or would you be willing to be operated on by a surgeon you tells you that whenever a little voice in him tells him to disregard his medical training, he listens to the little voice? I know it passes in polite company to let people have it both ways, and under most circumstances I wholeheartedly cooperate with this benign agreement. But we're seriously trying to get at the truth here, and if you think that this common but unspoken understanding about faith is anything better than socially useful obfuscation to avoid mutual embarrassment and loss of face, you have either seen much more deeply into the issue that any philosopher ever has (for none has ever come up with a good defense of this) or you are kidding yourself.
    Daniel Dennett

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