An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
OBSCURITY
obscureness, obscurity, abstruseness, reconditeness
(noun) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand
obscurity, obscureness
(noun) the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination
obscurity
(noun) an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known; “he worked in obscurity for many years”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
obscurity (countable and uncountable, plural obscurities)
(literary) Darkness; the absence of light.
The state of being unknown; a thing that is unknown.
The quality of being difficult to understand; a thing that is difficult to understand.
Synonyms
• (the state of being unknown): unknownness
Antonyms
• (the state of being known): fame
J. Wiwat (talk) 12:46, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
• (the state of being clear): clarity
Source: Wiktionary
Ob*scu"ri*ty, n. Etym: [L. obscuritas: cf. F. obscurité.]
Definition: The quality or state of being obscure; darkness; privacy; inconspicuousness; unintelligibleness; uncertainty. Yuo are not for obscurity designed. Dryden. They were now brought forth from obscurity, to be contemplated by artists with admiration and despair. Macaulay.
Syn.
– Darkness; dimness; gloom. See Darkness.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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