Obscuration

Full definition of obscuration

Noun

1. the state of being obscured
• 1843, Thomas_Carlyle, , book 3, ch. X, Plugson of UndershotMoney is miraculous. What miraculous facilities has it yielded, will it yield us; but also what never-imagined confusions, obscurations has it brought in; down almost to total extinction of the moral-sense in large masses of mankind!