Inconspicuosity
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The quality of being inconspicuous. uncountable
"But after a time they found them inconvenient for their daily work and pastimes, which consisted principally of the laying of ambushes for the cutting of each other’s throats, or worse, and the hunting of the red-deer; both which things requiring secrecy and inconspicuosity, these bright and gaudy colours bewrayed them to their enemies and their game."
Example
More examples"But after a time they found them inconvenient for their daily work and pastimes, which consisted principally of the laying of ambushes for the cutting of each other’s throats, or worse, and the hunting of the red-deer; both which things requiring secrecy and inconspicuosity, these bright and gaudy colours bewrayed them to their enemies and their game."
Etymology
From inconspicuous + -osity.
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