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obfuscation

Today it means: 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. Full definition →

Middle English obfuscacioun ← Latin obfuscātiō, obfuscātiōnem

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Latin · derived fromobfuscātiō, obfuscātiōnem
Middle English · inherited fromobfuscacioun
English todayobfuscation

From Middle English obfuscacioun, from Latin obfuscātiō, obfuscātiōnem, from obfuscāre (“to darken”), from ob (“over”) + fuscāre (“to make dark”), from fuscus (“dark”).

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