| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties | | Division (II) Communication of Ideas | | Section III. Means of Communicating Ideas |
| Various Qualities of Style |
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| 571. Obscurity. |
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| NOUN: | OBSCURITY (unintelligibility) [See Unintelligibility]; involution, crabbedness, confusion; hard words; ambiguity [See Equivocalness]; unintelligibility, unintelligibleness; vagueness [See Uncertainty], inexactness [See Error]; what d’ye call ’em (neologism) [See Neology]; darkness of meaning.
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| ADJECTIVE: | OBSCURE &c. n.; crabbed; involved, confused.
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| QUOTATION: | Full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.—Macbeth |
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