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Proudofmines
Registerd: 2006/07
Posted:Mar 05, 2007 11:49AM
Subject: This week's theme is: In the dark.
Message: (noun)
[ob-SKYOOR-i-tee, ahb-SKYOOR-i-tee]
 


1. the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination

2. a state of being unknown; an obscure and unimportant standing; 'he worked in obscurity for many years': "Leona created breathless works of art in the freedom and poverty of obscurity."

3. the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand

Origin:
Approximately 1477; from Middle English, 'obscuryte': dimness; borrowed from Middle French, 'obscurite'; variant of Old French, 'oscurte'; from Latin, 'obscuritatem' (nominative 'obscuritas'), from 'obscurus': covered over, dark ('ob-': over + '-scurus': covered).
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Proudofmines
Registerd: 2006/07
Posted:Mar 06, 2007 12:16PM
Subject: This week's theme is: In the dark.
Message:  penumbra 

(noun)
[pi-NUM-brah]
 


1. a fringe region of partial shadow around a darker inner shadow, as in an eclipse

2. the grayish outer area surrounding the dark center of a sunspot: "Rick used special photography equipment to incorporate penumbra into his abstract art."

3. an indistinct area, especially where something is unclear or uncertain

4. an outer region or periphery

adjective forms: penumbral, penumbrous

Origin:
Approximately 1666; from New Latin, 'penumbra'; from Latin, 'paene': almost + 'umbra': shadow.

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Proudofmines
Registerd: 2006/07
Posted:Mar 09, 2007 1:14PM
Subject: This week's theme is: In the dark.
Message: tenebrous 

(adjective)
[TEN-ah-brahs]
 


1. dark and gloomy; 'a tenebrous cave': "Only moss could grow in this tenebrous corner, and I want to grow roses."

noun form: tenebrosity

Origin:
Approximately 1475; from Middle English; borrowed from Middle French, 'tenebreus'; from Latin, 'tenebrosus,' from 'tenebrae': darkness.
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Proudofmines
Registerd: 2006/07
Posted:Mar 08, 2007 10:54PM
Subject: This week's theme is: In the dark.
Message: purblind 

(adjective)
[PUR-bliend']
 


1. having greatly reduced vision

2. lacking in insight or discernment; dull; obtuse: "The company had suffered through ten years of purblind leadership, somehow evading all of the successes its peers had enjoyed."

adverb form: purblindly
noun form: purblindness

Origin:
Approximately 1300; from Middle English, 'pur blind' ('pur': pure + 'blind': blind): totally blind, nearsighted.
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Proudofmines
Registerd: 2006/07
Posted:Mar 07, 2007 6:09PM
Subject: This week's theme is: In the dark.
Message: opacity 

(noun)
[oe-PAS-i-tee]
 


1. the degree to which something reduces the passage of light; the quality of being opaque to a degree: "Harry, the opacity of your glasses after a soccer game is rather frightening."

2. an opaque spot

3. incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning

Origin:
Approximately 1560; borrowed from French, 'opacite'; borrowed from Latin, 'opacitatem': shadiness (nominative 'opacitas'), from 'opacus': shaded, dark.


 
 

 
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