Other forms: obfuscations
Obfuscation is the clouding of a matter so nobody can follow it. Deliberate obfuscation.
It is deliberate, which is what separates it from mere confusion. Obfuscation in an answer is what tells you the question was worth asking.
1nounobfuscationThe clouding of a matter so nobody can follow it.
“The whole reply was obfuscation in four hundred words.”
obfuscation is a clouding.
Latin obfuscatio comes from obfuscare, to darken, from ob plus fuscus, dark.
Latin
obfuscatio
Middle English
obfuscacioun
English, today
obfuscation
Built from
From Middle English obfuscacioun, from Latin obfuscatio, from obfuscāre (“to darken”), from ob (“over”) + fuscāre (“to make dark”), from fuscus (“dark”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA