Obfuscation

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of obfuscating or obscuring; also, that which obscures; obscurity; confusion.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of darkening or bewildering; the state of being darkened.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • 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.
  • noun. Confusion, bewilderment, or a baffled state resulting from something obfuscated, or made more opaque and muddled with the intent to obscure information.
  • noun. A single instance of intentionally obscuring the meaning of something to make it more difficult to grasp.
  • noun. The option to alter computer code, preserving its behavior but concealing its structure and intent.
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  • noun. the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered
  • noun. confusion resulting from failure to understand
  • noun. darkening or obscuring the sight of something
  • Word Usage
    "The only way to deal with bluster and obfuscation is to keep hammering at the facts and spelling out their implications."
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