obfuscation

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The act of obfuscating or obscuring; also, that which obscures; obscurity; confusion.

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The act of darkening or bewildering; the state of being darkened.

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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.

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Confusion, bewilderment, or a baffled state resulting from something obfuscated, or made more opaque and muddled with the intent to obscure information.

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A single instance of intentionally obscuring the meaning of something to make it more difficult to grasp.

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The option to alter computer code, preserving its behavior but concealing its structure and intent.

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the activity of obscuring people’s understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered

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confusion resulting from failure to understand

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darkening or obscuring the sight of something