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Nurturing
- verb - bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children"
- help develop, help grow; "nurture his talents"
- provide with nourishment; "We sustained ourselves on bread and water"; "This kind of food is not nourishing for young children"
Obscurant
- - One who obscures; one who prevents enlightenment or hinders the progress of knowledge and wisdom.
Obscurely
- adverb - in an obscure manner; "this work is obscurely written"
Obscurest
- unknown - least visible
- Superlative adjective of obscure.
Obscuring
- verb - make less visible or unclear; "The stars are obscured by the clouds"; "the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley"
- make obscure or unclear; "The distinction was obscured"
- make unclear, indistinct, or blurred; "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions"
- make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat"
- reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa
Obscurity
- noun - an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known; "he worked in obscurity for many years"
- the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand
- the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination
Obtruding
- verb - push to thrust outward
- thrust oneself in as if by force; "The colors don't intrude on the viewer"
Obtrusion
- - The act of obtruding; a thrusting upon others by force or unsolicited; as, the obtrusion of crude opinions on the world.
Obtrusive
- adjective - sticking out; protruding
- undesirably noticeable; "the obtrusive behavior of a spoiled child"; "equally obtrusive was the graffiti"